HENRI de TOULOUSE LAUTREC paintings

The Kiss	La Toilette	Friends	At the Moulin de la Galette	Moulin Rouge	Woman in a Corset
Training of the new girls	Portrait of Marcelle	M. Boileau Au Cafe	The Reading Room at the Chateau de Malrome	Bar	Desire Dihau reading a Newspaper

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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901

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Biography

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born in Albi, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. From an old aristocratic family which had lost much of its prestige, he was the son of Comte Alphonse and Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri was their first child. A brother was born on August 28, 1867 but died the next year. His parents were first cousins and much inter-marriage had already taken place within the families. This was done to preserve the family wealth, but led to genetic defects as the result of inbreeding.

At age 14, Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 15, his right thigh bone. A genetic disorder prevented his bones from healing properly, and his legs ceased to grow. He reached maturity with a body trunk of normal size but with abnormally short legs. He was only 1.5 m (4' 11") tall.

Unable to participate in the activities a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived for his art. He became an important post-Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and recorded the bohemian lifestyle of Paris at the end of the 19th century. In the mid-1890s, Toulouse-Lautrec contributed illustrations to the humorous magazine, Le Rire.

He was deemed "the soul of Montmartre", the Parisian quarter where he made his home. His paintings portray life at the Moulin Rouge and other Montmartre and Parisian cabaret and theaters, and in the brothels that he frequented (and where he perhaps contracted syphilis). Two of the well-known people he portrayed were singer Yvette Guilbert, and Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue, a dancer who created the "French Can-Can".

An alcoholic for most of his adult life, shortly before his death he entered a sanatorium. He died from the complications of alcoholism and syphilis at the age of almost 37, at the family estate in Malromé; he is buried in Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometres from his birthplace.

Toulouse-Lautrec is said to have been a genius of an artist whose remarkable powers of observation were matched by a profound sympathy with humanity. He never exhibited any regret at his deformities. He lived life fully, made many friends, and was accepted in spite of his short stature.

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