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Toulouse-Lautrec: Master Prints of the Troubled Printmaker |
| Section: THE ARTS / EXHIBITION |
| Author: Sondra Mayer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,458 Words, 8,606 Characters |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the son of a highly aristocratic, titled, and wealthy French family, never attained quite five feet in height due to a rare disease. However, he was a giant among artists of his time and has left a legacy of images that illuminate for us what life was like at the fin de siecle. New York's Museum of Modern Art is now presenting an exhibition of Lautrec's graphic work which he produced from 1891, the year of his first poster commission, to 1901, when he died. This exhibit will be on view until January 26, 1986.
During his short lifetime, Lautrec produced over 700 canvases, nearly 300 watercolors, over 5,000 drawings, and approximately 365 posters and prints. From this prodigious output the museum has chosen more than 300 works showing the genius of his graph...
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...s, along with its black chalk preparatory drawing is delightful, as is Lautrec's poignant lithograph, The Seated Clowness.
A visit to the Museum of Modern Art will bring la belle époque and the people of its time alive for you, as the dance and swirl, bow and twist in the oeuvre of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose talents and perceptions give an in-depth vision of this fascinating era.
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