At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing
by TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de, Oil on cardboard, 93 x 80 cm
Both the lithograph and the painting of this subject show the nude dancer and artist Cha-U-Kao (middle) dancing with a girlfriend, with Jane Avril to their right.
Around 1880 Montmartre became the centre for the lesbians of Paris. No one protested when two women waltzed together, as in Lautrec’s painting.