May Belfort 0000-0941

Lautrec presents her on a diagonal plane, her brilliant orange-red dress slanting to the left, her shoulder brought forward in the picture plane to place her in a frontal position. The flat sweep of her gown below the frilled, green-splattered sleeves is, taken by itself, merely a red sail or banner."" (Wagner, p.27) Julia Frey's excellent biography gives some interesting background to this: ""May Belfort, whom Henry represented in at least ten works, had gained a reputation for corrupt innocence by appearing onstage dressed as a baby holding a black kitten in her arms, and 'miaowing or bleating' her popular song, 'Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow,' whose lines had a double meaning which was not lost in the French-speaking audience: 'I've got a pussycat, I'm very fond of that.' Henry, enthusiastic, later wrote letters to friends trying to find a mate for the cat, and even got a cat himself."" (Frey, p.382)

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