Collect this large color lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec titled At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue and her sister!
At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec met one of his favorite café-concert stars, Louise Weber, nicknamed La Goulue (the glutton) because of her insatiable appetite for both food and life. In this lithograph, La Goulue and Her Sister (1892), La Goulue is seen inside the cabaret with her sister, surveying the scene and the men there. She is wearing a revealing gown, sports a flamboyant hairstyle, and a black ribbon around her neck. Because of her eccentric appearance, Lautrec often presented La Goulue with her back to the viewer—her silhouette was (and is) enough for her to be recognized. As with La Gouloue, Lautrec seized upon the key features of his subjects and in his highly stylized and reductive interpretations, encapsulated their core identities. This very image is included in the permanent collections of many prestigious museums, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Art Institute Chicago, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), and Guggenheim (Bilbao, Spain).
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Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times. In addition to being the artist who designed the Moulin Rouge's legendary posters, Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat, dwarf, and party animal who invented a cocktail called the Earthquake (half absinthe, half cognac). Like insects trapped in amber, his paintings, drawings and of course his famous posters preserve the swirl of energy, mix of classes and cultures, and the highs and lows of urban life in 19th-century Paris. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million, setting a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
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