Picasso and His Admiration for Toulouse-Lautrec
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Picasso arrived in Paris in 1900, he was 18 years old and was dazzled by the work of the Post-Impressionists (Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec). And he was also dazzled by the brightness, energy and wildness of the Montmartre district, which was chosen by the great artists who were revolutionizing everything.
Picasso wanted to depict the life of that neighborhood, influenced by the work of his admired Lautrec (precisely, his first Parisian painting was The Moulin de la Galette, one of the favorite dance halls of the great painter of the Parisian night).
Years later, Picasso said about this stage of his work: "It has been said that in my beginnings in Paris I copied Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen. It is possible. But no one has confused the pictures of Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen with mine."
* Steinlen was another late 19th century Montmartre painter and poster artist (like Lautrec).
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