The National Gallery of Australia has a Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition on until 2 April 2013. If only Toulouse-Lautrec was so acceptable in the Australia of the 1950s then it might have just saved someone a fiver! As the following articles from 1954 report - Harry Robinson, a resident of Cambridge Street Paddington was charged and fined 5 pounds for exhibiting a mural version of 'The Salon' (pictured above) at his Kings Cross cafe, 'The Moulin Rouge'!
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