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Childhood illness and injuries steered Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) away from customary rural aristocratic avocations and toward a profession as an artist. He became a painter, draftsman, and lithographer whose work was immersed in famously hedonistic, fin-de-siecle Paris. In his hands, advertising posters were raised to a high art; he…
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Why a book on Toulouse-Lautrec on a booklist about southern France? I might have asked myself that same question before visiting the region.
In the city of Albi, attached to the amazing 14th Century medieval cathedral there, I happened into the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum and learned he was born and raised in the town. After his death, his mother assembled the largest collection of his works, which are housed at this location. I became fascinated by his troubled and unusual life and followed him to Paris and the Moulin Rouge, where he became a famous Impressionist painter and pioneer of…
From T.C.'s list on the amazing history of the south of France.
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