La Goulue, the celebrated cancan dancer and queen of late-night Paris during the Belle Epoque, asked her friend Toulouse-Lautrec to paint two panels to decorate her carnival booth. It is those canvases Décoration pour la baraque de La Goulue and their extraordinary destiny that are the subject of this program. (32 minutes) English

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