Greedy Girl

Greedy Girl (“La Goulue”) was the nickname of a dancer made famous by a painter from the aristocratic family who had short legs. The painter who loved his prostitutes and café singers and dance hall dancers: Toulouse-Lautrec .

Greedy Girl, whose real name was Louise Weber, was former laundress (like Trilby) who became a famous dance hall dancer at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, c. early 1890’s.

Bursting into the Moulin Rouge in one Lautrec’s most famous paintings, “La Goulue enters the Moulin Rouge with Two Women” (1892), we see the dance star as a movie star in an extreme – to her waist – low cut v neck gown. There’s a superior expression of the famous twisted on her lips. The women with her arm and arm are totally besides the point.

Greedy Girl was nicknamed this because of her habit of draining other people’s glasses of liquor. She later grew too fat to dance the can-can, and lost her job as a dancer.

Accented red lips, lurid light green gown, patches of solid blue background color this painting.