Tolav-Segroeg
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Illustration: Toulouse-Lautrec Wearing Jane Avril's Feathered Hat and Boa (ca. 1892), photo Maurice Guibert.
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Tolav-Segroeg is a pseudonym used by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on at least two occasions: both exhibitions of the Incoherents, the one of 1886 and of 1889.
In the 1886 catalogue he presented himself as "Tolav-Segroeg, Hongrois de Montmartre, a visité le Caire et demeure chez un de ses amis, a du talent et le prouve". He presented a canvas (peinture à l’huile sur papier émeri) entitled Les Batignolles, trois ans et demi avant Jésus Christ (English: The Batignolles, three and a half-years before Jesus Christ). The Batignolles is a Parisian neighbourhood.
In 1889 he was "Tolav-Segroeg, hongrois de Montmartre, élève de Pubis de Cheval, spécialité de portraits de famille à fond jaune en simili- pastel." The work was entitled: Portrait d'une malheureuse famille atteinte de la petite grelure (English: Portrait of an unhappy family afflicted with 'petite grelure'). Pubis de Cheval is a reference to the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
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