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"did_you_know": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec depicted May Belfort in numerous prints, drawings, posters, and paintings.",
"description": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was inspired by caf\u00e9 concerts, popular places of Parisian entertainment that featured singers or other performers. This drawing depicts May Belfort, one such entertainer, who the artist discovered in 1895 during a visit to the popular nightclub Les D\u00e9cadents. Belfort soon became one of Lautrec's favorite models and is seen here wearing the ruffled dress and bonnet that became a signature of her performances. The singer adopted a babyish voice and stood motionless on the stage, encouraging her fans to shout lyrics along with her.",
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"citation": "Coquiot, Gustave. Lautrec, ou Quinze ans de moeurs parisiennes, 1885\u20131900. Paris: Ollendorff, 1921.",
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"citation": "Joyant, Maurice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864\u20131901, peintre. Paris: Floury, 1926.",
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"url": "https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1707_300061851.pdf"
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"citation": "The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1934.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 6, 69-70, no. 66; Reproduced: pl. 66",
"url": "https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1995_300190550.pdf"
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"citation": "Mack, Gerstle. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1938.",
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"citation": "Lassaigne, Jacques. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Hyperion, 1939.",
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"citation": "Six Masters of Post-Impressionism. Exh. cat. New York: Wildenstein, 1948.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Florisoone, Michel and M. G. Dortu. Toulouse-Lautrec: Exposition en l\u2019honneur du cinquanti\u00e8me anniversaire de sa mort. Exh. cat. Paris: Orangerie des Tuileries, 1951.",
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"citation": "Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956.",
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"citation": "Centenaire de Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. cat. Paris: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1964.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 74-76, no. 60; Reproduced: p. 75",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n203"
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"citation": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864\u20131901. Exh. cat. Vienna: O\u0308sterreichisches Museum fu\u0308r Angewandte Kunst, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 62, no. 20; Reproduced: pl. 19",
"url": ""
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n203"
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"citation": "Caproni, Giorgio. L\u2019Opera completa di Toulouse-Lautrec. Milan: Rizzoli, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 114 (ill.), no. 421a",
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"citation": "Novotny, Fritz. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Phaidon, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 192; Reproduced: pl. 83",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son \u0153uvre. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 3, pp. 362, no. 588; Reproduced: p. 363",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Thomson, Richard. Toulouse-Lautrec. London: Oresko Books, 1977.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 84-85",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n242"
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"citation": "Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son \u00e9poque. Paris: Denoel, 1979.",
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"citation": "Cooper, Douglas. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Abrams, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 106; Reproduced: p. 107",
"url": null
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"citation": "Toulouse-Lautrec. Exh. Cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1991.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Denvir, Bernard. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.",
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"citation": "Schimmel, Herbert. The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 321n2",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Kokatsu, Reiko. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994.",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Cate, Phillip Dennis, Mary Weaver Chapin, and Richard Thomson. Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005.",
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"citation": "Benesch, Evelyn and Ingried Brugger, eds. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Der Weg in die Moderne. Exh. cat. Vienna: Kunstforum Wien, 2015.",
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"citation": "Marchesseau, Daniel, et al . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec a\u0300 la Belle E\u0301poque, French Cancans: \u0152uvres graphiques, une collection priv\u00e9e. Exh. cat. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017.",
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