1893
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Miss Loïe Fuller is a 1893 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A woman in a flowing white dress twists under colored lights. Her arms stretch wide, holding long sticks that make the fabric billow like wings. This is Loïe Fuller, an American dancer who wowed Paris in the 1890s. She danced on a glass floor lit from below, with mirrors and electric lights turning her movements into something magical. Toulouse-Lautrec caught her mid-spin, showing how the dress and light blur together. If you like this, look up *impasto*—a thick paint technique that could make light feel just as alive.
Parisian audiences were captivated by Loïe Fuller (1862–1928), the American dancer seen in this print, whose unique performances involved manipulating voluminous translucent gowns with the aid of large poles in each hand. Fuller danced in a specially designed space featuring a glass floor illuminated from below and surrounded by mirrors. Electric lights of various colors projected onto the stage created an ethereal, swirling effect. Fuller’s extraordinary dance was the subject of Toulouse-Lautrec’s most abstract lithograph. The artist used layers of colored ink—including some metallic…
Loïe Fuller, depicted here, donated a group of sculptures to the Cleveland Museum of Art following its opening to the public in 1916.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: ), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.
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