New dances, appearing in the 1890s, enjoyed a frenzied success among the Parisians. Lautrec, keen on them no less than others, tried, without delaying the cases in a long box, to capture them in sketches, often preceding full-fledged paintings and lithographs.
In this work he is interested only in the frenzied movement of the dancer fluttering around the stage – everything else merges into the background and resembles a sketch.
Related Paintings
Loy Füller by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
Queen of joy by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
Clowness Sha-Yu-Kao by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
La Gulya, part of the “Moulin Rouge” with two women by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
May Belfort by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
Study for lithography Loyer Fuller in Foli-Ber-jer by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
In “Moulin Rouge” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 
The artist’s mother, Countess Adele de Toulouse-Lautrec at breakfast by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec