La troupe de Mademoiselle Églantine
Four dancers kicking in time with the frilled skirts in motion.
Lautrec made the poster for a dance troupe that travelled from Paris to perform in London. The dancers perform the cancan, a number in which legs and petticoats are lifted high.
The movement is built from repeated forms: four raised legs, four skirts and four heads. That gives a rhythm like a pattern.
Materials: Colour lithograph on paper
Manufacture: Printed as a colour lithograph in Paris in 1896.
The four women lifting their legs in the same movement.
The frills in white and pink.
The small hats and the gloves.