Su fascinacion por la vida nocturna lo llevo, como cliente asiduo y retratista incomparable, al Salon de la Rue des Moulins, al Moulin de la Galette, a Le Chat Noir, al Folies Bergere y por supuesto al Moulin Rouge que inmortalizo en sus famosos e inigualables carteles y programas de mano de artistas de la Belle Epoque como las bailarinas de cancan Jane Avril y La Goulue o la cantante
Yvette Guilbert. Tanto su sifilis como su alcoholismo estarian vinculados a esta predileccion por la bohemia disipada, donde surgieron sus formidables bocetos poblados por actores, bailarines, cirqueros, burgueses y prostitutas que retrataba en la fiesta pero tambien en la intimidad.
The raucous seductive voice of
Yvette Guilbert and the famous "Linger longer loo" picture by Toulouse Lautrec, featuring
Yvette Guilbert in the act of taking off her long black gloves and making this last, in a lingering that is a perfect example of sinful, "morose delectation", the time of the entire song: language in action, with its evocative power.
Suzuki focused on Lautrec's depictions of four performers, Jane Avril,
Yvette Guilbert, Louise Weber (aka "La Goulue") and Loi'e Fuller, all of whom owe much of their renown to his lavish attention.
She was one of Lautrec's most faithful copines, who outlived him by over forty years; dying in 1943, a year before her rival and friend
Yvette Guilbert. Jane Avril's sometimes frenzied dancing had been attributed to St Vitus's Dance (as Sydenham's chorea, which is an after-effect of rheumatic fever, was then called) and she spent a long time in hospital because of that diagnosis; but Sydenham's chorea lasts only a few months.
Behind, recognisable for her long black gloves, a motif Lautrec often repeated, is the cabaret singer
Yvette Guilbert.
Elizabeth Emery brings to notice
Yvette Guilbert (d.
"I thought I am never going to get my feet back on the boards again so I wrote my first show - The Life and Times of
Yvette Guilbert - and I have become hooked on one person shows," she says.
Yvette Guilbert wants to steal the fortepiano in order to plug it into her sessions (at the same time as the harpsichord).
The singer
Yvette Guilbert, whom he befriended and often portrayed, was shocked upon first encountering his "enormous dark head, ...
Paris was applauding change for change's sake and Toulouse-Lautrec hobbled on his damaged legs from sensation to sensation amongst a group of artists such as Van Gogh, Felix Feneon (the art and society critic), the protest singers Aristide Bruant (who Toulouse-Lautrec immortalised in a famous poster) and
Yvette Guilbert. Then there was also the absurdist playwright, Alfred Jarry, who mocked society with his cheeky creation 'Pere Ubu'.
Bratton's "Irrational Dress," Susan Rutherford's "The Voice of Freedom: Images of the Prima Donna," and Helen Day's "Female Daredevils") or move confidently into theoretized analysis (Geraldine Harris's "
Yvette Guilbert: La Femme Moderne on the British Stage").
Actrices como Jane Avril,
Yvette Guilbert, pero sobre todo, Louise Weber, llamada "La Goulue", son las mas retratadas por el artista.
