拍品專文
The present painting depicts the legendary American dancer Loïe Fuller the year she first appeared at the Folies-Bergères in Paris. Her ethereal dances, such as "La Serpentine," "La Violette," "Le Papillon" and "La Danse Blanche," incorporated the use of twirling veils of silk illuminated by colored lights. The present picture was painted the same year as his masterpiece Au Moulin Rouge (Dortu P.427; coll. The Art Institute of Chicago) and it is part of almost a decade-long study of cabaret artists that Toulouse-Latrec began in the late 1880s.