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...coveted acquaintances, versatile Stephen Ward held out the key to an exotic demimonde of teen-age trollops and rarefied sexual rites that seemed more in keeping with Lautrec's Montmartre than tidy Thamesside. The second son of a country clergyman, he had a lifelong talent for spotting, seducing and sophisticating pliable provincial lasses. "I suppose," said he, "that I have been one of the most successful men with girls in London since the war." He used this gift unremittingly for his friends, who rewarded him with a social acceptance that meant far more to him than the financial proceeds...
Right Cross. Playing in summer stock in 1938, she did a scene in which she wore boxing gloves and was supposed to hang one on the leading man. This leading man had a nose like Cyrano de Bergerac's and was not much bigger than Toulouse-Lautrec. Uta flattened him. He got up and, some months later, married her; she became Mrs. José Ferrer...
...years since his death in 1901, the dwarfish figure of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been surrounded by a fabric of legends-that he was a lecherous troll, happy only when he lived in the midst of a bevy of rowdy streetwalkers; that he was a black sheep and a profligate driven from his home by a wealthy and outraged noble family. The truth of the matter may be quite the opposite, as a show called "Toulouse-Lautrec and His Family" at the Museum of Rennes, France, sets out to prove...
Nearly all the works on view came from widely scattered members of the artist's family, and almost half of them have never before been seen by the public. Though Lautrec's Parisian period-the era of the raffish La Goulue. Valentin the Boneless, and high-kicking Jane Avril-was largely responsible for his fame, it is apparent that his childhood on the family estate in southern France shaped his destiny. The show in Rennes is a warmhearted family album of portraits and sketches of the people and things that surrounded the crippled painter after he fell...
...family is an ancient and illustrious one: Lautrec's armor-clad ancestors went on the Crusades, his rich grandfather, father and uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...