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...painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was commissioned to do a print advertising the opening of the Moulin Rouge, a much-hyped new nightclub in the bohemian Montmartre quarter of Paris. The print, known today simply as “Moulin Rouge,” was so popular that, within days, admirers were stealing them from kiosks throughout the city. With the success of “Moulin Rouge,” Toulouse Lautrec’s career changed course. Prints became his primary medium; flamboyant can-can dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However...
...Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
...Fogg Art Museum will unveil a rare exhibition this Saturday of the earliest works by French turn-of-the century painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec—including works on loan from some of the world’s most renowned art museums...
...He’s a great graphic artist but one of his best and most interesting paintings is in the Wertheim [Fogg] Collection,” said Henri T. Zerner, professor of history of art and architecture and curator in the Harvard University Art Museums...
...paintings in Impressionist Still Life are all there for a reason, but some are more famous or considered more significant than others. Henri Fantin-Latour’s “Still Life: Corner of a Table” (1873), for example, is thought to be the culmination of what he was trying to do artistically: to arrange a still life so as to make it seem unarranged...