Artist Toulouse Lautrec

Exhibition dates: June 18th, 2009 – January 3rd, 2010

Oh gosh I hope I get to see this wonderful exhibition! It’s on until January 2010, so hopefully I’ll be able to see it when I’m back in Paris in November.

A bit about this wonderful artist/lithographer: Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec is a descendant of the Counts of Toulouse, and was born on 24 November 1864 in Albi.

In 1882, he received his first lessons in drawing and painting with a friend of his father, painter René Princeteau.

The year 1891 was decisive in his career when he created the new poster for the Moulin Rouge. This first large poster has immortalized Lautrec, and he went on to create beautiful lithographs.

Some of Toulouse Lautrec’s work (of which I’ve been very fond for many years):

Although Toulouse died at the very young age of 37, his work has lasted and is known worldwide – this exhibition is over 100 years since his untimely death in 1901.