Tate Britain celebrates English artists eclipsed by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec: "The exhibition also brings Degas' famous work L'Absinthe, depicting a drink-sodden couple seated together at a cafe table, to Britain for the first time since 1893. Then it caused a national scandal, 'the Tracey Emin bed crisis of the 1890s', according to Anna Gruetzner Robins, co-curator of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec. 'It was one of the first times in Britain that the subject matter of an artwork had made people question whether it was art at all. The audience saw the equivalent of two crack cocaine addicts.'"
