DIVAN JAPONAIS (1892-93): Vintage Postcard

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Divan Japonais depicts a fashionable Parisian café-concert, showing Jane Avril and Édouard Dujardin watching Yvette Guilbert perform. Its flattened space, asymmetrical composition, expressive outlines and bold cropping reveal Toulouse-Lautrec’s strong admiration for Japanese woodblock prints.