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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
At the age of 13, Henri fractured his right thigh bone, and at 14, the left. The breaks did not heal properly. After that, his legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long.
Deprived of the physical life that a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived completely for his art. He dwelt in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to depict in his work. Dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks, prostitutes - all these were memorialized on canvas or made into lithographs. (Source: Wikipedia)
Following are the pieces of works I love the most:
A l Elysee Montmartre, 1888
The clownesse Cha u Kao at the Moulin Rouge, 1895
Two Friends, 1895
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
At the age of 13, Henri fractured his right thigh bone, and at 14, the left. The breaks did not heal properly. After that, his legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long.
Deprived of the physical life that a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived completely for his art. He dwelt in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to depict in his work. Dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks, prostitutes - all these were memorialized on canvas or made into lithographs. (Source: Wikipedia)
Following are the pieces of works I love the most:
Study of a Nude, 1882
Bouquet of Violets in a Vase, 1882
At Montrouge (Rosa la Rouge), 1886-1887
A l Elysee Montmartre, 1888
At the Cirque Fernando Rider on a White Horse, 1888
Study of a Dancer, 1888
The Goulue and Valentin, The Boneless One, 1891
In bed the kiss, 1892
Jane Avril Dancing, 1891-1892
Two Half Naked Women Seen from Behind in the Rue des Moulins Brothel, 1894
Yvette Guibert singing, 1894
Booth of La Goulue at the Foire du Trone (Dance at the Moulin Rouge), 1895
Marcelle Lender Dancing in the Bolero in Chilperic, 1895
The clownesse Cha u Kao at the Moulin Rouge, 1895
Two Friends, 1895
Alone (Elles), 1896
Woman at Her Toil, 1896
Woman at Her Toilette them, Washing Herself, 1896
Crouching Woman with Red Hair, 1897
Nude Standing before a Mirror, 1897
Dinner at the House of M. and Mme. Nathanson, 1898
Poupoule in chemise by her bed
The Medical Inspection
Woman Putting on Her Stocking
Portrait of Van Gogh and himself:
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1887
Self-Portrait. Caricature, 1885
