The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge1892
An Englishman in a top hat and dark coat leans towards two women at the Moulin Rouge, the Montmartre dance hall that Toulouse-Lautrec frequented and made famous. More about this work
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An Englishman in a top hat and dark coat leans towards two women at the Moulin Rouge, the Montmartre dance hall that Toulouse-Lautrec frequented and made famous. The model was William Tom Warrener, a painter from Lincoln and a friend of the artist, posing as a stylish visitor in conversation with the hall’s regulars. Lautrec painted it in thinned oil on cardboard and used the composition for a colour lithograph the same year. The bold silhouette and flat areas of colour reflect his love of Japanese prints.
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How it was made
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901 · Born in Albi; died in Saint-André-du-Bois.
Toulouse-Lautrec came from an aristocratic family in Albi; after two leg fractures in his teens his legs stopped growing, and he turned to art. Trained in Paris under Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon, he settled in Montmartre and recorded its dance halls, cabarets, circuses and brothels with quick, incisive line. His colour lithograph posters for the Moulin Rouge and its performers transformed the street poster. He died at the family’s Château de Malromé at the age of thirty-six.
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Post-Impressionism
Artists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.
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- 67.187.108
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- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- European Paintings
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