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Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
PainterAbout
Remembered for such Post-Impressionist paintings as "A Box at the Theater" (1896) and "The Laundress" (1889), this nineteenth-century French painter is equally famous for his colorful posters depicting cabaret scenes from Paris' Moulin Rouge.
Before Fame
From his early childhood years, he suffered from health problems that disrupted his growth and left him permanently physically disabled and much shorter in stature than the average man.
Trivia
- Over the course of his career, he created more than 6,000 works of art, including watercolors, posters, drawings, prints, and ceramics. In 2005, his painting La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress) sold for over twenty-two million United States dollars.
Family Life
He was born in Albi, France and raised primarily in Paris as the child of aristocrats Adele Tapie de Celeyran and Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa. When he was four years old, he dealt with both the death of his younger brother and his parents' subsequent separation.
Associated With
He was a close friend of the famous Irish author Oscar Wilde.
Quotes
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it"
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
"Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them."
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
"All confined things die."
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
"I am alone all day, I read a little but it gives me a headache. I draw and I paint, as much as I can, so much so that my hand gets tired and when it begins to get dark I wait to see if Jeanne d'Armagnac [one of the cousins] will come and sit by my bed. She comes sometimes and tries to distract me and play with me, and I listen to her speak without daring to look at her, she is so tall and so beautiful! And I am neither tall nor beautiful."
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
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