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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
Albi. He was born Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa to an aristocratic family.
First cousins. The marriage was one of convenience - Adele-Aoe Tapie de Celyran married Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa only to keep money within the family. Possibly as a result of this, they led separate lives after 1868, with Alphonse womanizing and Adele becoming very religious.
pyknodystosis. Yes, that is a word. It's a hereditary disease that causes brittle bones and is worsened by inbreeding. While young, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both of his legs and neither leg grew again. He matured to have a full-sized body with short legs. He would become very sensitive about his appearance.
Rene Princeteau. In Toulouse-Lautrec's time, for someone of his station, art was supposed to be nothing more than a gentlemanly leisure, and his parents did not approve of his art. This was evident in their choice of teachers for their son: his first teacher (Princeteau) was a deaf-mute who painted generic, academic art. Toulouse-Lautrec moved on within a month.
Leon Bonnat. Bonnat taught students in order to prepare them for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (France's top art school). Bonnat stressed the importance of drawing as the basis of painting. However, within 6 months, Bonnat became a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and once again Toulouse-Lautrec had to find a new teacher.
Fernand Cormon. Cormon also emphasized drawing, but allowed his students quite a bit of leeway in finding their own style. Toulouse-Lautrec quit attending Cormon's studio when he discovered Japanese and avant-garde style art.
Aristide Bruant. Bruant, the owner of a cabaret called Le Mirliton, introduced Toulouse-Lautrec to the world of Montmartre.
| When this new cabaret opened, it became Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite place to meet with friends and enjoy the nightlife. What is this famous cabaret? | Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
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Moulin Rouge . This was also the point where Toulouse-Lautrec would begin to drink heavily, which would affect him later in life.
alcoholism. He had become very physically and mentally unfit, and he even experienced severe deliriums and hallucinations.
May Milton. Toulouse-Lautrec also cut off part of May Milton...this puts emphasis on the fact that she is leaving.
La Goulue. La Goulue is looking in a mirror.
yes . He is walking next to his cousin, Dr. Tapie de Celyran.
to focus attention on La Goulue. The handrail also distances the viewer from the subjects by putting a barrier between the scene and the spectator.
36. He died on September 9, 1901, leaving behind about 700 oil paintings, 5,000 drawings, and 350 lithographs.
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on 24 November 1864 at Albi. His father belonged to the French nobility and was a _____________? | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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comte (count). Count Alphonse was a rather special character. When Henri was dying, the rarely seen 'Comte' suddenly showed up. Everyone was astonished except the dying painter himself. His comment was : 'Good Papa. I knew you would not miss the 'kill''. Very appropriately phrased as the Count was a fervent huntsman. Henri's last words were addressed to his dad. They were not particularly flattering though. 'Vieux con', was Henri's bye-bye to his eccentric daddy - which is equivalent to 'You old fool'.
Louise Weber. Suzanne Valodon was Lautrec's model for such paintings as La Buveuse. La Goulue had first been Renoir's nude model. Her dancing partner was Jacques Renaudin, better known as Valentin le Desosse (the Boneless). Jane Avril was the star dancer of Le Moulin Rouge after La Goulue had left. Jane Avril was a totally different type of dancer.Her style was a graceful, refined and melancholy mix of prudery and provocation.
| Which painter was advised in 1885 by Toulouse-Lautrec to leave Paris and find a more suitable climate for both his health and his artistic goals in the sunny South of France? | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Vincent van Gogh. Cezanne had no need to be told about the qualities of the South of France as that was the area where he was born, more particularly at Aix-en-Provence. Pissarro was a close friend of Claude Monet's and seems to have been quite satisfied with the less sunny climates of Normandy and Paris. Gauguin...went to even sunnier places than the South of France.
| Though Toulouse-Lautrec painted quite a few celebrities (including Oscar Wilde, Tristan Bernard, Yvette Guilbert a.o.), he also found his subjects among the anonymous 'filles de joies' of the Parisian brothels. What was the euphemistic name used to refer to such 'dens of vice'? | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Maisons closes.. Works typically inspired by Lautrec's acquaintance with the filles de joie of Montmartre were: Elsa la {Viennoise;} A la {toilette;} Femme nue devant sa {glace;} Femme rousse nue {accroupie;} l' Anglaise du {Havre;and} the lithographies of the album 'Elles'.
The Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, was not very lucky when paying a visit to Toulouse-Lautrec. When he wanted to say hello to the artist, Toulouse-Lautrec turned out to have fallen asleep in his armchair, overcome with fatigue and probably too much ...alcohol. Though Toulouse-Lautrec was a great designer of posters, it was not him who invented the 'Your Country Needs You' recruiting-poster.
at the castle of Malrome, amidst his family. He had been taken up at the Neuilly hospital in 1889 for a delirium tremens problem. Nice is where he stayed various times when he was still a young boy. James Abbott Mc Neil Whistler was born at Lowell, Mass. in 1834. He died in 1903 after having thoroughly scandalised traditional art critics such as John Ruskin. The Toulouse-Lautrec family was for once au grand complet. Even Henri's eccentric, and perpetually 'absent' father, the Comte Alphonse did attend. Malrome, at Saint-Andre du Bois, in the Bordeaux area, was the family residence of the Toulouse-Lautrecs. Nowadays it is a 'wine-chateau'.
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