[17 Feb 2008|10:05am] Paul and I had a little Day-After Valentine's date at the Portland Art Museum. We'd been eager to see "The Dancer"; a special exhibition of French Impressionists Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Jean-Louis Forain. We were of course both familiar with Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec is one of Paul's great heroes, but Forain was completely unknown to us. I'm not sure if the above images were in the exhibit, but they are good examples of Forain's cartooning style (and in the second case, one of his favored subjects-- a wealthy gentleman paying a backstage call on a young ballerina.) I wish I could find images of some of the paintings and pastels we saw, but no dice. 1 comment|post comment

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