Harris .:. The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec

Harris, Nathaniel,
The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec. London u.a.: Optimum Books, 1981. 80 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Pappband (gebunden) mit Schutzumschlag. 4to. 326 x 235 mm.

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Bestell-Nr.161559 | ISBN: 0-600-37482-3 | 978-0-600-37482-4

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Harris | Biographien Kunst | Kuenstlermonographien | Malerei | Graphik

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Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat, a stunted cripple whose dissipation and cynicism arose largely out of disgust with his own deformity. Isolated from his own class by his grotesque appearance, he became a frequenter of the dives and dancehalls of Paris. The moral misery of that milieu struck a chord of sympathy with his own miserable plight, and, adoring as he did all women, he became their confidant and was always welcome in their intimate surroundings.
He detested hypocrisy and embraced every opportunity to study his models in their natural environment; he loved them and endowed them with intense life.
His brilliant drawing and use of expressive and unexpected colour account for his skill in lithography, his posters being masterpieces of their kind.
Toulouse-Lautrec's life and art were one, he lived what he painted and gave the world a collection of vivid and unconventional paintings that immortalized the people who inhabited the dance halls, brothels, cafés and nightclubs of Paris in the late nineteenth century.

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Contents
The Greatness of Toulouse-Lautrec 6
Paris: La Belle Épooue 10
Youth and Apprenticeships 24
The Best Years 36
Self-Destruction 71
Acknowledgments 80

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