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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

A Toulouse-Lautrec painting of a late 19th-Century female cabaret singer was sold for $856,000 at a Paris auction Thursday. The sale of the 1883 Impressionist painting of Jane Avril, a renowned singer in Paris’ Pigalle night life, was the latest in a series of auctions in the French capital marked by fierce competition among American, Japanese and French buyers.

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