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..[a] generous display of scantily clad beauties and a carnavalesque inventiveness.. ..[the] beautifully masked and under-dressed women, with showers of confetti, multicolored streamers. The atmosphere was one of frenzy..

— Gino Severini The Life of a Painter - autobiography (1946)

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Severini described the popular Parisian nightspot 'Bal Tabarin', after which he made his painting 'Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin', in 1912

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..displacement of bodies in [the] atmosphere [where] two persons form but one plastic unity, rhythmically balanced.

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