Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas, (French, 1854-1925)
A portrait of Loie Fuller
Oil on canvas
35 x 46in (88.90cm x 117cm)
Private collection
Loie Fuller, original name Marie Louise Fuller, (born
Jan. 15, 1862, Fullersburg, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 1, 1928, Paris, France),
American dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in
theatrical lighting, as well as for her invention of the “Serpentine Dance,” a
striking variation on the popular “skirt dances” of the day.
Fuller
made her stage debut in Chicago at the age of four, and over the next quarter
century she toured with stock companies, burlesque shows, vaudeville, and
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, gave temperance lectures and Shakespearean
readings, and appeared in a variety of plays in Chicago and New York City.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Loïe Fuller, 1892
Sketch
A popular
if not authenticated explanation of the origin of Fuller’s innovative dances
claims that Fuller was inspired by the billowing folds of transparent China
silk. She began experimenting with varying lengths of silk and different
coloured lighting and gradually evolved her "Serpentine Dance," New
York in February 1892. Later in the year she traveled to Europe and opened at
the Folies Bergère in her "Fire Dance," in which she danced on glass
illuminated from below. She quickly became the toast of avant-garde Paris.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin, and Jules Chéret used her as a
subject. She lived and worked mainly in Europe thereafter. Her later
experiments in stage lighting, a field in which her influence was deeper and
more lasting than in choreography, included the use of phosphorescent materials
and silhouette techniques.
After World War I she danced infrequently, but from her
school in Paris she sent out touring dance companies to all parts of Europe. In
1926 she last visited the United States, in company with her friend Queen Marie
of Romania. Fuller’s final stage appearance was her "Shadow Ballet"
in London in 1927. More on Loie
Fuller
Marie-Felix Hippolyte-Lucas was a French painter ,
born on November 9 , 1854 in Rochefort-sur-Mer , and died on April 17 , 1925 in
Bougival.
Between
1877 and 1924, his works were regularly exhibited at the Salon des artistes
français where he receives numerous awards . He was also awarded at the
Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. He is knight of the Legion of Honor.
Marie
Felix Hippolyte-Lucas was a pupil of Isidore Pils, Karl Lehmann and Évariste
Luminais.
He
executed decorative paintings for the casino in Monte Carlo, the conference
centre at the Musée Océanographique in Monaco, and three ceilings in the
Préfecture du Rhône. More on Marie-Felix Hippolyte-Lucas
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November
1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and
illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in
the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant
and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, life of those times.
Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist
period, alongside Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at
Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young
laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a
price at auction. More on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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