... in art history, perhaps, because of what it represents. The composition, with its oblique perspective, acid palette, bizarre artificial lighting, and mask-like faces, is a haunting image of the dissolute Bohemian life of turn-of-the-century Paris. His supposed interest in the interiors of nightlife brothels during this period are displayed appropriately by the work's obvious setting in the Moulin ... ...

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