Word: lautrecs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) have such a long trunk and short legs, walk so badly? To Paris Pediatrician Gaston Levy, the Moulin Rouge explanation (bone fractures at the ages of 13 and 14) is silly. His own "highly probable hypothesis'': the artist suffered from polyepiphyseal dysplasia, or defects at the bone ends, where growth takes place. This fitted the known facts that Toulouse-Lautrec appeared normal as an infant, had poor growth from the age of nine, thereafter had difficulty getting up from a chair, and walked in a clumsy duck waddle...
Today "Madman" Munch is recognized as Scandinavia's most powerful artist, one of the key founders of German expressionism, second in power only to Vincent Van Gogh, and on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec as a graphic artist. His work was first shown on a major scale in the U.S. seven years ago (TIME, May 1, 1950) ; the second major retrospective has already been an outstanding hit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis' Institute of Arts, will travel over the coming twelvemonth to Chicago, Cincinnati and San Francisco...
...join the gentlemen on horseback at the Bois de Boulogne with Toulouse-Lautrec, or scale the white stone heights of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur with Utrillo, or decorate the Eiffel Tower like a Christmas tree, as Seurat's fancy did. Telescoping the centuries, one can see the coronation of Napoleon or Marie Antoinette in prison. Here is Paris drinking the cocktail of the sun, and here is Paris wrapped in the misty veils of a Salome. These books present a courtesan, the irresistible city of a thousand wiles, painted by her infatuated admirers...
...time or another as the sire of the late, famed, alcoholic painter of Montmartre scenes sounds like a roll call of 19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...
...were sold. Most popular: Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass the golden age of the 1890s...