Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Toulouse-Lautrec Album De Marine, 1953

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Lithograph and stencil on Papeteries de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: … more Lithograph and stencil on Papeteries de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Toulouse-Lautrec Album De Marine, 1953. Published by Berggruen & Cie, Paris; rendered and printed by de l’imprimerie Daniel Jacomet, Paris, October, 1952. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), It was taken from this album five hundred and fifty examples including five hundred numbered from I to D And fifty non-commerce examples. The book has been finished printing in July 1953 by Daniel Jacomet et Cie in Paris for the facsimile of the album and by l’imprimerie Union printing in Paris for the text.

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) 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. He influenced generations of artists including Picasso who had traveled to Paris where he at first imitated Toulouse-Lautrec's style. less