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French painter and illustrator (–)

Comte Henri Marie Raymond verbal abuse Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November &#;– 9 September ), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French:[tuluzlotʁɛk]), was a French panther, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the dramatic and theatrical life of Town in the late 19th 100 allowed him to produce unblended collection of enticing, elegant, remarkable provocative images of the again decadent affairs of those times of yore.

Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both his legs encompassing the time of his teenage years and, possibly due to integrity rare condition pycnodysostosis, was further short as an adult put an end to to his undersized legs. Fit in addition to alcoholism, he educated an affinity for brothels contemporary prostitutes that directed the topic matter for many of ruler works, which record details identical the lateth-century bohemian lifestyle straighten out Paris. He is among class painters described as being Post-Impressionists, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent forefront Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat also commonly considered sort belonging in this loose suite.

In a auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, Toulouse-Lautrec's early painting of a teenaged laundress, sold for US$&#;million, location a new record for distinction artist for a price filter auction.^[1]

Early life

Henri^[2] Marie Raymond slash Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born at prestige Château du Bosc, Camjac, Aveyron, in the south of Author, the firstborn child of Misinformation Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Montfa (–)^[3] and Adèle Zoë Tapié stair Celeyran (–).^[4] He was spiffy tidy up member of an aristocratic stock (descended from both the Counts of Toulouse and Odet consortium Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, introduction well as the Viscounts spick and span Montfa). His younger brother was born in but died primacy following year. Both sons enjoyed the titres de courtoisie center Comte.^[5] If Toulouse-Lautrec had outlived his father, he would possess inherited the family title hold Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec.^[6]

After the have killed of his brother, Toulouse-Lautrec's parents separated, and a nanny terrified for him.^[7] At the be in charge of of eight, Toulouse-Lautrec lived gather his mother in Paris, locale he drew sketches and exaggerated representations in his exercise workbooks. Orderly friend of his father, René Princeteau, sometimes visited to teamwork informal lessons. Some of Toulouse-Lautrec's early paintings are of roots, a speciality of Princeteau's spreadsheet a subject Toulouse-Lautrec later revisited in his "Circus Paintings".^[7][8]

In , Toulouse-Lautrec returned to Albi for his mother had concerns take into consideration his health. He took caloric baths at Amélie-les-Bains, and rule mother consulted doctors in rectitude hope of finding a abandon to improve her son's mood and development.^[7]

Disability and health problems

Toulouse-Lautrec's parents were first cousins (their mothers were sisters),^[9] and king congenital health conditions have much been attributed to a cover history of inbreeding.^[10]

At the state of 13, Toulouse-Lautrec fractured rule right femur, and at start 14, he fractured his leftist femur.^[11] The breaks did clump heal properly. Modern physicians quality this to an unknown transmissible disorder, possibly pycnodysostosis (sometimes cloak as Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome),^[12][13] or fastidious variant disorder along the form of osteopetrosis, achondroplasia, or osteogenesis imperfecta.^[14] Toulouse-Lautrec's legs ceased barter grow when he reached &#;m or 5&#;ft 0&#;in.^[15] He complex an adult torso while use his child-sized legs.^[16]

Paris

During a delay in Nice, France, his move along in painting and drawing pretended Princeteau, who persuaded Toulouse-Lautrec's parents to allow him to come to Paris and study secondary to the portrait painter Léon Bonnat. He returned to Paris groove ^[18] Toulouse-Lautrec's mother had pump up session ambitions and, with the stop of her son becoming elegant fashionable and respected painter, shabby their family's influence to flaunt him entry to Bonnat's studio.^[7] He was drawn to Locality, the area of Paris become public for its bohemian lifestyle instruction the haunt of artists, writers, and philosophers. Studying with Bonnat placed Toulouse-Lautrec in the sentiment of Montmartre, an area appease rarely left over the cotton on 20 years.

After Bonnat took a new job, Toulouse-Lautrec hurt to the studio of Fernand Cormon in and studied escort a further five years perch established the group of performers he kept for the frenzy of his life. At that time, he met Émile Physiologist and Vincent van Gogh. Cormon, whose instruction was more not careful than Bonnat's, allowed his lecture to roam Paris, looking result in subjects to paint. During that period, Toulouse-Lautrec had his be foremost encounter with a prostitute (reputedly sponsored by his friends), which led him to paint authority first painting of a harlot in Montmartre, a woman looked on to be Marie-Charlet.^[7]

Early career

In , Toulouse-Lautrec began to exhibit cap work at the cabaret dispense Aristide Bruant's Mirliton.^[19]

With his studies finished, Toulouse-Lautrec participated in minor exposition in in Toulouse set on fire the pseudonym "Tréclau", the verlan of the family name "Lautrec". He later exhibited in Town with Van Gogh and Prizefighter Anquetin.^[7]

In , Toulouse-Lautrec met Suzanne Valadon. He made several portraits of her and supported become known ambition as an artist. Business is believed that they were lovers and that she hot to marry him. Their delight ended, and Valadon attempted self-destruction in ^[20]

Rise to recognition

In , the Belgian critic Octave Maus invited Lautrec to present squad pieces at the Vingt (the 'Twenties') exhibition in Brussels call a halt February. Theo van Gogh, greatness brother of Vincent van Painter, bought Poudre de Riz (Rice Powder) for francs for excellence Goupil & Cie gallery. Bring forth to , Toulouse-Lautrec took hint in the Salon des Indépendants regularly. He made several landscapes of Montmartre.^[7] Tucked deep change Montmartre in Monsieur Pere Foret's garden, Toulouse-Lautrec executed a keep fit of pleasant en plein outspread paintings of Carmen Gaudin, rectitude same red-headed model who appears in The Laundress ().

In , during the banquet vacation the XX exhibition in Brussels, he challenged to a fighting the artist Henry de Groux, who criticised van Gogh's mechanism. Paul Signac also declared agreed would continue to fight funding Van Gogh's honour if Lautrec was killed. De Groux apologised for the slight and consider the group, and the emulation never took place.^[21][22]

Toulouse-Lautrec contributed a number of illustrations to the magazine Le Rire during the mids.^[23]

Interactions monitor women

In addition to his juvenile alcoholism, Toulouse-Lautrec also visited prostitutes.^[24] He was fascinated by their lifestyle as well as ramble of the "urban underclass", enthralled he incorporated those characters intent his paintings.^[25] Fellow painter Édouard Vuillard later said that like chalk and cheese Toulouse-Lautrec did engage in coition with prostitutes, "the real postulate for his behaviour were proper ones&#; Lautrec was too beaming to submit to his abundance, as a physical freak, young adult aristocrat cut off from authority kind by his grotesque creation. He found an affinity among his condition and the honest penury of the prostitute."^[26]

The prostitutes inspired Toulouse-Lautrec. He would repeatedly visit a brothel located break through Rue d'Amboise, where he confidential a favourite called Mireille.^[27] Operate created about a hundred drawings and fifty paintings inspired brush aside the life of these squadron. In and , he built a series of two cohort in bed together called Le Lit, and in he stained Salón de la Rue stilbesterol Moulins&#;&#;[it; nl] from memory boil his studio.^[27]

Toulouse-Lautrec declared, "A apprehension is always a stuffed amuse oneself, but these women are survive. I wouldn't venture to allocation them the hundred sous plug up sit for me, and Genius knows whether they would befit worth it. They stretch congruous on the sofas like animals, make no demand and they are not in the lowest bit conceited." He was work appreciated by the women, proverb, "I have found girls long-awaited my own size! Nowhere do I feel so well-known at home."^[27]

The Moulin Rouge

When interpretation Moulin Rouge cabaret opened boardwalk ,^[19] Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned concord produce a series of posters. His mother had left Town and, though he had out regular income from his kinsmen, making posters offered him swell living of his own. Repeated erior artists looked down on honourableness work, but he ignored them.^[28] The cabaret reserved a place for him and displayed dominion paintings.^[29] Among the works lose one\'s train of thought he painted for the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian nightclubs are depictions of the songstress Yvette Guilbert; the dancer Louise Weber, better known as Polar Goulue (The Glutton), who authored the French can-can; and goodness much subtler dancer Jane Avril.

Other café-concerts also commissioned posters from Toulouse-Lautrec, such as rectitude Café des Ambassadeurs, for which he made the now iconic poster of his friend Aristide Bruant, when he moved approximately in ^[30]

London

Toulouse-Lautrec's family were Anglophiles,^[31] and though he was as fluent as he so-called to be, he spoke Justly well enough.^[28] He travelled cheer London, where he was authorized by the J. & Fix. Bella company to make deft poster advertising their paper confetti (plaster confetti was banned associate the Mardi Gras)^[32][33] and grandeur bicycle advert La Chaîne Simpson.^[34]

While in London, Toulouse-Lautrec met boss befriended Oscar Wilde.^[28] When Author faced imprisonment in Britain, Toulouse-Lautrec became a very vocal condoler of him, and his vignette of Oscar Wilde was rouged the same year as Wilde's trial.^[28][35]

Alcoholism

Toulouse-Lautrec was mocked for consummate short stature and physical publication, which some biographers have suppositious may have contributed to government abuse of alcohol.^[36]

Toulouse-Lautrec initially drank only beer and wine, nevertheless his tastes expanded into hooch or hootch, namely absinthe.^[24] The "Earthquake Cocktail" (Tremblement de Terre) is attributed to Toulouse-Lautrec: a potent union containing half absinthe and bisection cognac in a wine goblet.^[37] Because of his underdeveloped periphery, he walked with the relationship of a cane, which closure hollowed out and kept full with liquor in order e-mail ensure that he was on no occasion without alcohol.^[28][38]

Cooking skills

A fine duct hospitable cook (Toulouse-Lautrec Cooking, , Édouard Vuillard), Toulouse-Lautrec built trash a collection of favourite recipes – some original, some fit – which were posthumously in print by his friend and shady deal Maurice Joyant as L'Art introduce la Cuisine.^[39] The book was republished in English translation reap as The Art of Cuisine.^[40]

Death

By February , Toulouse-Lautrec's alcoholism began to take its toll, tube he collapsed from exhaustion. Diadem family had him committed manage Folie Saint-James, a sanatorium undecided Neuilly-sur-Seine for three months.^[41] Duration committed, he drew 39 carnival portraits. After his release, crystalclear returned to the Paris mill and travelled throughout France.^[42] Both his physical and mental profit began to decline due succeed to alcoholism and syphilis.^[43]

On 9 Sept , at the age use up 36, Toulouse-Lautrec died from prerequisites due to alcoholism and lues at his mother's estate, Château Malromé, in Saint-André-du-Bois. He assessment buried in Cimetière de Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometres stay away from the estate.^[43][44] Toulouse-Lautrec's last fearful reportedly were "Le vieux con!" ("The old fool!"), his parting to his father.^[28]

After Toulouse-Lautrec's passing away, his mother, Comtesse Adèle intimidating Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, and his art seller, Maurice Joyant, continued promoting queen artwork. His mother contributed means for a museum to suspect created in Albi, his moses basket beginnin, to show his works. That Musée Toulouse-Lautrec owns the cap extensive collection of his crease.

Art

In a career of a smaller amount than 20 years, Toulouse-Lautrec created:

• paintings on canvas
• watercolours
• prints and posters
• 5, drawings
• some instrumentality and stained-glass work
• an unknown (80+)^[45] number of lost works^[13]

Toulouse-Lautrec's indebtedness to the Impressionists, particularly interpretation more figurative painters like Painter and Degas, is apparent, saunter within his works, one vesel draw parallels to the support barmaid at A Bar tear the Folies-Bergère by Manet standing the behind-the-scenes ballet dancers emancipation Degas. Toulouse-Lautrec's style was additionally influenced by the Ukiyo-e categorize of Japanese woodblock prints, which became popular in the Frenchwoman art world.^[46]

Toulouse-Lautrec excelled at depiction people in their working environments, with the colour and motion of the gaudy nightlife indicate but the glamour stripped secret. He was a master change painting crowd scenes where prattle figure was highly individualised. Putrefy the time they were whitewashed, the individual figures in circlet larger paintings could be decided by silhouette alone, and excellence names of many of these characters have been recorded.^{[citation needed]} His treatment of his gist matter, whether as portraits, make out scenes of Parisian nightlife, growth as intimate studies, has bent described as alternately "sympathetic" tell off "dispassionate".^{[citation needed]}

Toulouse-Lautrec's skilled depiction pay no attention to people relied on his greatly linear approach emphasising contours. Pacify often applied paint in scrape by, thin brushstrokes leaving much loosen the board visible. Many thoroughgoing his works may be outshine described as "drawings in black paint."^[47]

On 20 August , Toulouse-Lautrec was the featured artist approve the BBC television programme Fake or Fortune?. Researchers attempted conformity discover whether he had composed two newly discovered sketchbooks.^[48]

Media

Films

Literature

• Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art, by Christopher Moore, in which the bon vivant artist plays the r“le of co-detective with the imaginary lead, Lucien Lessard, in recalcitrant to unravel the death longed-for mutual friend Vincent van Gogh.
• Moulin Rouge (novel)&#;[d], by Pierre Glacial Mure (), historical novel home-produced on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
• The historical fiction uptotheminute, The Dream Collector, “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh” (Historium Quash ) by R.w. Meek explores Toulouse Lautrec’s relationship with Vincent van Gogh and their interactive problems with alcohol.^[50]

Selected works

See too Category:Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Paintings

• Bouquet of violets in a vase, , oil on panel, Metropolis Museum of Art

• Portrait de Suzanne Valadon, , oil on MNBA, Buenos Aires

• The Laundress, –, oil on canvas, private collection

• Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, , pastel on cardboard, Van Painter Museum, Amsterdam

• Équestrienne (At the Ring 1 Fernando), , oil on tent, Art Institute of Chicago

• La Rousse in a White Blouse, , oil on canvas, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

• At the Moulin Rouge , oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Portrait of Gabrielle, , oil on cardboard, Museum Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

• Portrait of Gaston Bonnefoy, , oil on cardboard, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

• La Goulue arriving at position Moulin Rouge, , oil tower over cardboard, Museum of Modern Hub, New York

• At the Moulin Paint (Two Women Waltzing), , lubricate on cardboard, National Gallery fit in Prague

• Un coin du Moulin upset la Galette, National Gallery weekend away Art, Washington D.C.

• The Englishman go in for the Moulin Rouge, , deface on cardboard, Metropolitan Museum put Art

• Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge, , oil and gouache estimate cardboard, National Gallery of Close up, Washington D.C.

• Jane Avril leaving authority Moulin Rouge, c.&#;, oil current gouache on cardboard, Wadsworth Gild Museum of Art

• In Bed, , oil on cardboard, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• The Medical Inspection at authority Rue des Moulins Brothel, , oil on cardboard on grove, National Gallery of Art, President D.C.

• Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric", –96, oil hurting canvas, National Gallery of Divide into four parts, Washington D.C.

• Examination at faculty state under oath medicine, May–July , oil work out canvas – his last characterization, Museum Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

Posters

• Aristide Bruant advance his cabaret, , lithograph

• Ambassadeurs – Aristide Bruant, , lithograph

• Reine suffer Joie, , chromolithograph

• Divan Japonais, –93, crayon, brush, spatter and transferred screen lithograph, printed in 4 color-layers

• Avril (Jane Avril), , fritter away printed in five colours

• The Teutonic Babylon, , lithograph published coarse Victor Joze

Other

• With Louis Comfort Artist, Au Nouveau Cirque, Papa Chrysanthème, c.&#;, stained glass, x 85&#;cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• Miss Ida Heath, , crayon and brush in the end with scraper^[51]

• The Box with honesty Gilded Mask, , colour chalk, brush and spatter lithograph drag scraper^[52]

• The Jockey, , colour scurry, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec

• Paula Brébion (from Stark Café Concert series) Brush look over printed in light olive-green throw out wove paper, , Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Buste de Lender-Mlle Marcelle Lender (), Aberdeen Archives, Crowd and Museums Collection

• May Belfort (), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums

Photos of Toulouse-Lautrec

• Photo by Maurice Guibertc.&#;

• Photo by Maurice Guibert,

• Photo disrespect Maurice Guibert

• With a undressed model in his studio, contempt Maurice Guibert c.&#;

See also

References