Starting in the 1890ies, Toulouse Lautrec focuses on the distractions Paris has to offer: the theatre, the circuses, the tracks and also the brothels. He will draw numerous scenes of them. Except two or three saucy paintings the painter from Albi refuses to paint obscene, vulgar or venal prostitutes like other painters used to do at that time. There he started to break off with caricatures to get a more naturalistic touch that is also more human.
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