The Met - Balloon in Distance - 37.5" x 37.5" - Gray

This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. William Tom Warrener, an English painter and friend of Lautrec’s, appears as a top-hatted gentleman chatting up two female companions at the Moulin Rouge, the dance hall that epitomized the colorful and tawdry nightlife of fin-de-siècle Paris. The women’s suggestive attitudes—and Warrener’s ear, reddened in embarrassment�����indicate the risqué nature of their conversation. This painting served as a preparatory study for a color lithograph of 1892.