Tentacles at the exhibition "Secrete Images (The Japanese Erotic Prints)" - Museum Picasso

"As a result of descriptions and commentates by influential writers and critics who were also champions of japanese art, such as Edmond de Goncourt, Philippe Burty, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Gustave Coquiot, erotic scenes featuring a woman diver and an octopus had a major impact in artistic and literary circles at the end of the 19th century. The Erotic iconography of Hokusai's print (The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife) inspired different versions and interpretations accortinf to the artistic fashions of the time, by artists such as Rodin, Rops and Picasso"



"To date, only part of Toulouse- Lautrec's collection of japanese erotic prints and drawings is known to us, thanks to a collection of 20 photographs which were catalogues by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with the inscriptio' Estampes japonaises érotiques ayant appartenu à Toulouse-Lautrec. The works shown (...) include a version of this Hokusai's print"