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Copies of these prints line the foyer outside the new exhibition on Toulouse Lautrec at the Fogg Art Museum. The focal point of this exhibit, however, is the collection of six portraits, entitled Three Women: Early Portraits by Toulouse Lautrec, from his pre-Moulin Rouge days. Reflecting impressionist and even Renaissance influences, the portraits are among Toulouse Lautrec’s most conservative works, standing in sharp contrast to the decadent, brazen prints outside...
...students who, when I went to art school, couldn’t draw, became photographers,” quipped Mel Bochner, whose photographs made up the exhibit, currently on display at the Sackler Museum. “Photography was seen as a lower form...
Since the artist is better-known for his prints depicting the decadent and flamboyant Parisian cabaret scene, any paintings—particularly portraits—represent a side of Toulouse-Lautrec not well-known by the general public. The three different women featured in the exhibit were only recently identified as portraits of specific individuals and were all painted before...
According to Kianovsky, having an important work like The Hangover within the Fogg helped inspire the museum’s curatorial staff to spend nearly four years securing Toulouse-Lautrec’s other portraits for the exhibit...
...course, in addition to its revelatory value as the residual evidence of a ‘genius’ at work, this exhibit includes works of astounding visual and artistic expression—captivating, as well, for the mere, yet sublime, settling of pigment on the paper’s surface. The images range from obscure compositions to variations of the quintessential de Kooning women...