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                                      NEOIMPRESIONISM                           The Bed | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In the painting The bed, we can see two laying women looking at each other. Although the character in the right might seem a man is, actually, a woman with short hair. On the scene, Lautrec himself said “…It is the very epitome of sensual delight”.  The artist painted an almost identical canvas entitled The kiss, in which the two characters are obviously kissing. Beyond the first impression, these paintings don’t reflect a lesbian relationship between the women. The girls that worked in the cabarets usually slept together at the end of the night, because there wasn’t any room for individual beds. It was common that the bond they developed was more fraternal than sexual, although this can be generalized. Lautrec’s The bed doesn’t seem to be about erotic desire. It just shows a tender scene where the women shelter together protecting themselves against a hostile or, at least, an indifferent world.