Caudieux at the Petit Casino (from Le Café Concert)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French
Printer Edward Ancourt French
Publisher l'Estampe Originale French
Toulouse-Lautrec’s fascination with the performers and patrons of Paris’s café concerts resulted in a series of prints that included this lively depiction of a comic singer and dancer known as the "human cannonball." Here, the artist captured the seemingly gravity-defying movement of the heavyset Caudieux, whose body pushes up against the boundaries of the image. With his deft use of spatter—achieved by running a finger along a loaded brush to create a fine spray of ink—he evoked the glittering atmosphere of the stage.
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