2-652-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Miss May Belfort Welcoming', c.1895, (1946). Portrait of the Irish singer, May Belfort, who lived and worked in Paris. She gained notoriety for her song, 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow'. Lautrec made several portraits of her and she is often depicted holding a small black cat, a reference both to her signature song and to her lesbian affairs. From The Etchings of the French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries, by Edward T. Chase. [The Hyperion Press, Paris, 1946]