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| | Art/Auctions: Impressionist & Modern Art works on paper auction at Christie's November 9, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Lot 118 is a very strong portrait of Jane Avril, the Parisian singer immortalized by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. |
 | | A year later, Picasso started on the project choosing as his subjects Jane Thylda, a Spanish dancer known as Teresina, Rose Demag, Anna Tibault, Jeanne Bloch, andthe most important of all, the still glamorous and much-loved dancer Jane Abril...Two drawings of Avril by Picasso have survived and this is one. |
 | | The entry also quotes John Richardson that the only of the women Picasso actually liked was Avril and his portraits reveal that picasso was derermined to comeup with a new image for the fact that Toulouse-Lautrec's posters had made into an incon. |
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