Museum Connect : Impressionism
Toulouse-Lautrec
1864-1901
〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1891.
〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1892.
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times.
Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both his legs around the time of his adolescence and, due to the rare condition pycnodysostosis, was very short as an adult due to his undersized legs. In addition to his alcoholism, he developed an affinity for brothels and prostitutes that directed the subject matter for many of his works recording many details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the painters described as being Post-Impressionists, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat also commonly considered as belonging in this loose group.
In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million, setting a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
Paul Cézanne
〈Montagne Sainte-Victoire〉, 1882-1885.
〈Boy in a Red Vest〉, 1888-1890.
Vincent Willem van Gogh
〈Starry night〉, 1889.
〈Sun flower〉, 1888.
Paul Gauguin
〈Tahitian Women on the Beach 〉, 1891.
〈Two Women〉, 1901.
Claude Monet
〈Impression, soleil levant〉, 1872.
〈Garden at Sainte-Adresse〉, 1900.
Edgar Degas
〈Ballet 〉, 1873–1876.
〈Young Spartans Exercising〉, 1860.
Auguste Renoir
〈Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette〉, 1876.
〈A Girl with a Watering Can〉, 1876.
Toulouse-Lautrec
〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1891.
〈In The Restaurant La Mie〉, 1892.
Gustave Caillebotte
〈Rue de Paris, temps de pluie〉, 1877.
〈Les raboteurs de parquet〉, 1875.
Francisco Goya
〈El tres de mayo de 1808〉, 1814.
〈Saturn〉, 1820.