The artist at work on “Training of the New Girls by Valentin at the Moulin Rouge, 1889-90.” |
Completed "Training of the New Girls, 1889-90" |
INTIMATE STUDIES--Throughout his career, which spanned less than 20 years,
Toulouse-Lautrec created 737 canvases, 275 watercolors, 363 prints and posters,
5,084 drawings, some ceramic and stained glass work, and an unknown number of
lost works. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gaugin
as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
In Bed Series: "The Kiss: |
Toulouse-Lectrec’s
(1864-1901) debt to the Impressionists, in particular the more figurative
painters Manet and Degas, is apparent. In the works of Toulouse-Lautrec can be
seen many parallels to Manet's bored barmaid at “A Bar at the Folies-Bergere”
and the behind-the-scenes ballet dancers of Degas. He excelled at capturing
people in their working environment, with the color and the movement of the gaudy
night-life present, but the glamour stripped away. He was masterly at capturing
crowd scenes in which the figures are highly individualised.
At the time that they were
painted, the individual figures in his larger paintings could be identified by
silhouette alone, and the names of many of these characters have been recorded.
His treatment of his subject matter, whether as portraits, scenes of Parisian
night-life, or intimate studies, has been described as both sympathetic and
dispassionate.
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