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The music for Elles was written to be performed along with a slide display of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's lithographic folio, one piece for each of die prints in the series. The pieces are intended to be listened to only while observing the prints, so the experience should be (in a decidedly "low-tech" way) multi-media. The music responds not only to the motion and atmosphere of the prints, but also to their abstract texture and technique.

The Elles series is generally considered a milestone of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's career. These lithographs commissioned to be sold as portfolios mended for the erotic print collectors+ market prove to be a financial failure rather than erotic, the series is intimate, replacing licentious explicitness with natural honesty. The images are reminiscences drawn from Lautrec's thematic exploration of the duly routine of life in brothels. Technically Elles (which translates as the feminine pronoun they) holds an important position in the history of printmaking, extending the pictorial possibilities of the medium to achieve fluid and expressive effects previously associated only with painting. Lautrec demonstrates a preference for a modem flat design style over the traditional chiaroscuro, but uses color, ink density and the paper itself to conjure the mood and atmosphere of light and shadow. (These comments are drawn from Nora Desloges Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection catalogue.)

The titles and order of the plates (as established by cataloguers) are as follows:

1. Cover for Elles (Elles, couverture)
2. The Seated Clowness--Mademoiselle Cha-u-ka-o (La Clowness assise [Mademoiselle Cha-u-ka-oj])
3. Woman with a Tray - Breakfast (Femme au plateau -Petit dÄjeuner)
4. Sleeping Woman - Awakening (Femme couchÄe - RÄveil)
5. Woman at the Tub - The Tub (Femme au tub - Le tub)
6. Woman Washing Herself - The Toilette (Femme qui se lave - La toilette)
7. Woman with Mirror - The Hand Mum (Femme ç glace - La glace ç main)
8. Woman Combing Her Hair - The Coiffure (Femme qui se peigne - La coiffure)
9. Woman in Bed, Profile - Awakening (Femme au lit - Au petit lever)
10. Woman in Her Corset - Passing Conquest (Femme en corset - Conquete de passage)
11. Reclining Woman - Weariness (Femme sur le dos - Lassitude)
12. Frontispiece for Elles (Elles, frontispice)

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