A fin de siecle legend: decoration of the booth of La Goulue, 1895, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi 1864-Malrome 1901)

France, 1992

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Episode of Series “Palettes”.
La Goulue, the celebrated cancan dancer and queen of late night Paris during the Belle Epoque, asked her friend Toulouse-Lautrec to paint two panels to decorate her carnival booth. The artist’s two largest canvases were to have an extraordinary destiny. This video describes the panels in detail and the techniques which Lautrec used to paint them, as well as setting them in their artistic and social context.

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Credits

director

Alain Jaubert

production company

Delta Image

FR3

La Sept

Musee D'Orsay

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
France
Production dates
1992

Appears in

Palettes

Group of items

Palettes

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303900

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901

History → Europe - Civilization - 19th century

History → Europe - Civilization - 20th century

History → History

People → Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901

Short films

Short films → Short films - France

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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