Toulouse-Lautrec felt truly at ease in the Moulin Rouge. Indeed, in that nocturnal atmosphere, he could be authentically himself.
Complete freedom arose from the fact that no one cared either about his illness or his aristocratic origins . With this Ball at the Moulin Rouge, in particular, the painter intends to capture the ordinary madness and ambiguity of a night in Montmartre.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec is the painter of that nocturnal delirium. For this reason, he immortalized its life, contributing to its fame: among his most famous paintings is Ball at the Moulin Rouge, also known as Valentin le Désossé Training the New Talents (1889-1890).
Toulouse Lautrec was more interested in people than places: he shows dancers, patrons, the people of the night, bodies driven by music.
Behind the gaze enraptured by the movement of La Goulue’s legs, in her sensual red stockings, there are us dressed in pink, dazzled by what the music is able to unleash.
The Ball at the Moulin Rouge is one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s most complex paintings . Indeed, the protagonists of the work are La Goulue and Valentin le désossé: we find them in the background on the left.
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