Word: lautrecs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRAGIC LIFE OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (277 pp.)-Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson-Random House...
...years while impressionist art was becoming a common place of the U.S. home, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has passed through all stages in opinion from monster to master...
...mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with a savage clarity that has forced his special vision of his age on succeeding generations...
...slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used her as the model for his contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of her, Gueule de Bois (The Hangover), so attracted Van Gogh that he wrote his brother, eagerly inquiring: "Has De Lautrec finished his picture of the woman leaning on her elbows on a little table...
Renoir was the first to discover his model's secret. When Suzanne failed to show up for a sitting one day, Renoir went to her room. Finding her drawing a self-portrait in pastels, Renoir exclaimed in astonishment: "You, too?" Lautrec also praised her work, saw to it that she met the great, testy French master, Edgar Degas, who had seen her as an acrobat at Place Pigalle's Molier Circus before a bad fall finished her brief career. Degas in turn was delighted. Said he: "You are one of us." Recalled Suzanne, years later: "That...