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The Muse des Beaux-Arts had a Toulouse Lautrec exhibit: '...et les Maitres de l'Affiche'. Many will recognize the above Montmartre Belle Epoque poster (Cocteau, Modigliani, Picasso, Gaugin, Whistler). We also saw the 'Chat Noir' poster, cancan depictions, plus lithographs of Sarah Bernhardt, ads for absinthe, cookies, cocoa and chocolate. Fave story: to mock pretentious critics, the above artists once entered a painting in a contest that'd been made after tying a brush to a mule's tail. It won!
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