Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Key facts

Full title	The Two Friends
Artist	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artist dates	1864 - 1901
Date made	1894
Medium and support	Oil on board
Dimensions	47.9 × 34 cm
Inscription summary	Signed
Acquisition credit	On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940
Inventory number	L731
Location	Room 43
Image copyright	On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940, © 2000 Tate
Collection	Main Collection

The Two Friends

Throughout the 1890s Toulouse-Lautrec visited brothels in Paris and spent days observing the women there. A series of paintings on this theme culminated in 'Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins' of about 1894 (Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec), which depicts the women sitting awaiting their clients.

This painting may represent an early stage in the genesis of the Albi picture, but it also belongs to a series of paintings focusing on the friendships between the women which often, as here, portrayed intimate moments or gestures of companionship or sympathy.

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The Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 'The Two Friends', 1894

The Two Friends

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