Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, born on November 24, 1864, in Albi, France, was a scion of an ancient aristocratic family. The son of Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and Adèle Zoë Tapié de ...
Today's Google doodle celebrates the 150th birthday of one of the most well-known French painters of the post-impressionist period, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Even if you're not an art buff, you're ...
His full name began with Henri Marie Raymond and his last name ended in Monfa. Most of us could never identify him from any of those. His commonly known last name became synonymous with a genetic ...
In life, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec didn’t stand 5 feet. In death, though, he continues to cast a tall shadow. The painter and printmaker, with his provocative images of the ...
Three years ago Gerstle Mack’s Paul Cezanne was published and accepted almost at once as a definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in ...
The artist was a trailblazer for the lithography movement in Paris, and one of the earliest victims of celebrity culture. Fin-de-siècle Paris was known as the city of pleasure, famed for its cabarets ...
You probably know that Toulouse-Lautrec was short. You probably know he painted the Moulin Rouge. You may know that he lived for a spell in a brothel. And you will certainly know what his posters look ...