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...Three Women,” the show will display six paintings that have never before been shown in the same museum exhibit. The show will also be one of the first to highlight the artist’s early works—completed before he burst onto the Parisian art scene in 1891 with his print of the Moulin Rouge...
Since the artist is better-known for his prints depicting the decadent and flamboyant Parisian cabaret scene, any paintings—particularly portraits—represent a side of Toulouse-Lautrec not well-known by the general public. The three different women featured in the exhibit were only recently identified as portraits of specific individuals and were all painted before...
...Beirut its old title, "Paris of the Middle East." The streets are lined with new and restored office buildings, apartments, shops and cafes. There's a Virgin Megastore (selling DVDs like Legally Blonde alongside videotapes of Osama bin Laden speeches) and a Beirut branch of Paul, a famed Parisian boulangerie. Summer festivals in the mountains east of the city have featured attractions such as Sting and Elton John...
...Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is tucking into terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped up by a chef who used to work at one of London's most popular restaurants, the Ivy. Even the most discerning Parisian diners have been reserving tables at Le Chênevert, Galeries Lafayette's chic venue that opened in September to rave reviews...
After World War I Parisian painters went back to nature. They may have taken a rest from challenging artistic fundamentals, but they still had no time for bourgeois morality. A room devoted to nudes painted between the wars is frankly erotic, including the Italian Amedeo Modigliani's lush Reclining Nude of 1919. Less familiar are the delicate Youki, Snow Goddess (1924), by the Japanese Tsuguharu Foujita, who lies against frozen whiteness protected by an alert and sharp-featured dog, and Marcel Gromaire's Seated Nude (1929), sporting fashionable bobbed hair and a wide-collared coat slung around her shoulders...