Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri - Artist and his Model - photograph 1893 postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Model, in front of te Painting 'Au Salon' 1893
• Artist (if known): Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
• Media or other details:  Photograph
• Publisher / Gallery: Bibliotheque Nationale /  Fotofolio
• Postally used:  no but has a date written on the back in pen
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Modern
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Stock No.:A198

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [?~?i d? tuluz lo't??k]) (24 November 1864 � 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de si�cle Paris yielded an �uvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with C�zanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.

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Toulouse-Lautrec was drawn to Montmartre, an area of Paris famous for its bohemian lifestyle and for being the haunt of artists, writers, and philosophers. Studying with Bonnat placed Henri in the heart of Montmartre, an area that he would rarely leave over the next 20 years. After Bonnat took a new job, Henri moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon in 1882 and studied for a further five years, here making the group of friends he would keep for the rest of his life. It was at this period in his life he first met �mile Bernard and Van Gogh. Cormon, whose instruction was more relaxed than Bonnat's, allowed his pupils to roam Paris, looking for subjects to paint. In this period Toulouse-Lautrec had his first encounter with a prostitute, reputedly sponsored by his friends, and this led him to paint his first painting of the prostitutes of Montmartre, a woman rumoured to be called Marie-Charlotte.^[2]

With his studies finished, in 1887 he participated in an exposition in Toulouse under the pseudonym ""Tr�clau"", an anagram of the family name 'Lautrec'. He later exhibited in Paris with Van Gogh and Louis Anquetin.^[2] The Belgian critic Octave Maus invited him to present eleven pieces at the Vingt (the Twenties) exhibition in Brussels in February. The brother of Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh bought 'Poudre de Riz' (Rice Powder) at the price of 150 francs for the Goupil & Cie gallery.

From 1889 until 1894, Henri took part in the ""Independent Artists' Salon"" on a regular basis. He made several landscapes of Montmartre. It was in this era that the 'Moulin Rouge' opened.^[2] Tucked deep into Montmartre was the garden of Monsieur Pere Foret, where Toulouse-Lautrec executed a series of pleasant plein-air paintings of Carmen Gaudin, the same red-head model who appears in The Laundress (1888). When the nearby Moulin Rouge cabaret opened its doors, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to produce a series of posters. His mother had left Paris and while Henri still had a regular income from his family, making posters offered him a living of his own. Other artists looked down on the work, but Henri was so aristocratic he did not care.^[10] Thereafter, the cabaret reserved a seat for him, and displayed his paintings.^[11] Among the well known works that he painted for the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian nightclubs are depictions of the singer Yvette Guilbert; the dancer Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue (""The Glutton""), who created the ""French Can-Can""; and the much more subtle dancer Jane Avril.