Which artist produced many paintings of Jane Avril at The Moulin Rouge?
Jane Avril died in 1943 at the age of 74. She was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Zsa Zsa Gabor portrayed Avril in the original "Moulin Rouge" (1952); half a century later, the semi-fictionalized character was reinterpreted by Nicole Kidman in "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). Avril is one of the characters in Per Olov Enquist's book "The Book of Blanche and Marie", which portrays the lives of Blanche Wittman and Marie Curie. Jane Avril Jane Avril (9 June 186817 January 1943) was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, 'given to jerky
Jane Avril that Jane Avril travelled with a dance troupe to perform in London. In 1895 the owners of the Moulin Rouge offered her a great deal of money to take on the risky task of replacing Louise Weber, the most famous dancer in Paris, known by her stage name as "La Goulue". Graceful, soft-spoken, and melancholic, Jane Avril gave a dance presentation that was the opposite of the very boisterous La Goulue. Nevertheless, the club's patrons adored her, and she became one of the most recognizable names of the Parisian nightlife. That same year, Avril gave birth to a son but