Au 'Divan Japonais'
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A close-up view of figures at the Divan Japonais, a Montmartre café-concert popular with artists in the 1890s. A woman's profile in brown and dark hair fills the left half of the canvas, silhouetted against a background of orange, pink, and yellow-green — the floral or patterned wallpaper of the interior. A second dark silhouette is visible at the right. The paint is thick and broken into small dabs of color, particularly in the orange-pink background, giving the surface a tapestry-like density. The Divan Japonais was also the subject of Toulouse-Lautrec's famous 1893 poster. Vuillard's version is intimate and compressed, just figures and pattern at close range.