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The Sofa  1896

by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Lautrec set out to document the lives of prostitutes in a series of pictures executed between 1892 and 1896. At first he made sketches in brothels, but he was apparently hampered by insufficient lighting and had his models pose in his studio. He appreciated the naturalness of sitters like this lesbian couple, "who stretch themselves out on the divans…entirely without prete...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art