Brilhante!

Brilliant!

That portrait of Jane Avril that shows her so carefully, intelligently, scrutinizing a contract? Unaware seemingly of the person who is looking at her from up close, making a portrait so indelible, and beautiful, for being not any more or less that what she clearly, so modestly, was? One of the greatest, and most memorable, people of her time? A lovely pastel? It was recently given (relativement, promis il y a 12 ans.... je croix) to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and briefly - for more than a year, but not long enough - exhibited, but not permanently so, for the damage that light can do to pastels... But O I do say that seeing is believing, and there is such a thing as love at first sight, in art, in people we may unexpectedly meet... I had it HOT for Jane Avril from the age of 8, because the Nelson-Atkins also owns that poster, which they don’t show so much anymore, but when I was a kid used to hang in what people called a back staircase, only because you would usually take the elevator, so much quicker... but seeing her poster there, all by yourself, and her áll by herself, in a caveenous slightly dark staircase? it was like seeing, for the very first time, something gloriously pornographic, which of course it was not, but for a kid of 8? So maybe not pornographic, but just something pure in art, like black magic... whatever it was, I was in love... boy O boy, I remember the feeling, I do ...didn’t know what is was yet, this love of mine, love of art and an amour of a woman... but boy did it feel great

such good insight

very good !

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AROUND THE TOULOUSE PAINTINGS, WAS THE WASHERWOMAN

I have admired T-L since I was a boy but I have a question. At 1:57 we see a yellow object hanging off Avril's arm. This same item is also found in "Divan Japonais". This has puzzled me for years. Is it a purse? It doesn't look like contemporary purses we see today.

J'ai vu cette belle pièce de théâtre sur Jane Avril et Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5iIhJanlbjLmas.html