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Portrait of the Singer Yvette Guilbert on Stage
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (mentioned on object), 1894
This print was included in an album devoted to Yvette Guilbert. She specialized in melancholy chansons sung in a shrill or piercing tone. Lautrec here made a penetrating and slightly macabre portrait of the cabaret singer with her pale painted face. Some felt that Guilbert, not known for her beauty, should have put a stop to such representations of herself. Her craving for publicity had blinded her.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-1940-157
- Dimensionsheight 340 mm x width 160 mm, height 386 mm x width 287 mm
- Physical characteristicslithografie in olijfgroen