Moulin Rouge painting

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(1864 - 1897)

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge c.1895

one of the greatest paintings of all time

"These people annoy me. They want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. Look, it is so easy to finish things. I can easily paint you a Bastien-Lepage....Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then." - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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