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Ballet Dancers

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Date: 1885–86
Medium: Oil on plaster, transferred to canvas
Size: 153.5 × 152.5 cm (60 3/8 × 60 in.); Framed: 167.7 × 167.7 cm (66 × 66 in.)
Made in: France
Style: Post-Impressionism
Where to see it: Art Institute of Chicago

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection · CC0 Public Domain · Art Institute of Chicago · image via Wikimedia Commons · see it at the museum ↗

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About Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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's Belle Époque in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs.

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