Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Works by this Artist

Inspection, Rue des Moulins
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Background

aristocrat, son of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec and Comtesse Adèle Zoë Tapié de Céleyran de Toulouse-Lautrec (first cousins)

Studies

with uncle Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec and René Princeteau; with Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon (Paris)

Career

1882 – moves to Paris; befriends Vincent van Gogh and Emile Bernard fellow students of Cormon

1886 – exhibits at Salon des Arts Incohérents (Salon of Incoherent Arts); exhibits with Les XX (Brussels) and at the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français (Society of French Painter-Engravers, Paris)

1887 – exhibits at van Gogh’s Exposition du Petit Boulevard

1888 – consigns works to gallery Boussod, Valadon; At the Fernando Circus: The Equestrienne exhibited at opening of the Moulin Rouge

1889 - exhibits at Salon des Arts Incohérents

1891 – designs first poster, Moulin Rouge, La Goulue

1895 – first one man show at Boussod, Valadon

1899 – briefly institutionalized

Commissions from

Moulin Rouge; La Revue blanche; various theatres and nightclubs in Paris

Important Artworks

At the Fernando Circus: The Equestrienne, 1888 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Moulin Rouge, La Goulue, lithographed poster, 1891 (Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi)

Woman before a Mirror, 1897 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Web Resources

Metmuseum: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec Museum

Readings

Heller, Reinhold. Toulouse-Lautrec: the Soul of Montmartre. Munich and New York: Prestel, 1997

Sweetman, David. Toulouse-Lautrec and the Fin-de-Siècle. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000

Thomson, Richard. Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. Exhibition catalogue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005

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