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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC More than a century later, his black-stockinged, high-
kicking dancers with their layered petticoats and plumed
The artist who captured Paris’ Cabarets and Dance hats remain among the most popular and striking images of
Halls, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, modern art: The Musee d’Orsay, the largest impressionist
printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator art collection in the world, located on the left bank of the
whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of river Seine, 7th arrondissement of Paris. Enthralled by the
Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a history of the City of Lights and surrounded by all that
collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of could enchant the eye and enrapture the imagination, it
the modern, sometimes decadent affairs of those times. is no wonder that artists from around the world want to
Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the experience painting and being there.
Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cezanne, Vincent van “Throughout the years, the life story and the wonderful
Gogh and Paul Gauguin. The scene Lautrec stepped into figurative work of Toulouse-Lautrec made a life-long
was in the working-class district known as Montmartre, impression upon me. His work captivated you, taking one
notorious for its thieves and brothels as well as its to another epoch. I just imagined that I was in Paris back
hangouts for avant-garde artists and literary anarchists. in the late 1800’s.– a transcending experience, especially
Within a decade he would be famous for his spectacular when you are living in Paris. It is in the air, it is everywhere,
posters of the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian dance halls. from the museums, to the posters in the streets, and
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