Washing

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

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A woman bends over a basin with her bare back toward the viewer in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Washing. Restrained marks give the arms and hair a lightly established presence around the practical action. The body becomes the center of an intimate encounter, making a familiar interval of personal care engaging without a formal pose or public spectacle.

Made in 1896, the lithograph is printed in two colors on wove paper. Toulouse-Lautrec gives the intimate subject a lasting material form, allowing a modest act to be considered more slowly than it normally would be encountered. Its interest lies in the attention paid to process rather than the finished outward appearance. A familiar routine becomes something particular through the figure performing it, making the scene engaging through practical activity and the immediate presence of a person.