Jane Avril
<p>This poster was Lautrec’s last image of Avril. With her arms raised in a playful surrender, the dancer yields to an appliquéd snake, whose coils wrap around her slender black dress.<br /> Her twisted body might seem exaggerated, but it could have been prompted by Avril’s performances. As the poet Arthur Symons recalled, “She was so thin and supple that she could turn over backward…until she brushed the floor with her shoulders.”</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1899
- Dimensions
- Image, incl. stray marks: 55.6 × 30.9 cm (21 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 55.6 × 37.6 cm (21 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1899
- Dimensions
- Image, incl. stray marks: 55.6 × 30.9 cm (21 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 55.6 × 37.6 cm (21 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1899-014974
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified