Usually works of de Toulouse-Lautrec were ironic and grotesque but that it is not that pronounced in “La Toilette”. I think that the model is one of courtesans on Montmartre. The angle in this painting is unusual and even though it cannot be seen de Toulouse-Lautrec has portrayed a movement because it you actually cannot see what the girl is doing. “La Toilette” has central composition but in the background is explicitly fragmentary. There are vast, decorative spots of colour and the light polychromie mostly in blue tones.
Even though Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was post-impressionist in “La Toilette” are some signs of art nouveau, for example, dynamics of the lines of the clothes and the little table in the background.
To me the painting seems to radiate feeling of fatality and despair but also strength and will to fight.
Now the painting is at Musée du Louvre in Paris.
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