TOULOUSE LAUTREC EXHIBIT MMFA

Toulouse Lautrec is still not my favourite artist, but it was an interesting perspective on  La Belle Epoque. He was definitely in the heart of it, and I did not know before how he was affected by a congenital disorder that made his life as a painter make sense. He had more admirable works than I had seen. I do like La Toilette  and Portrait of Van Gogh. I recognize his style, and respect that development, but I feel like the original critics of impressionism. His distortions in colour and detail make me feel his disrespect of the women in his world, and I find most of his work ugly. To each his own, and time will tell!

Miss Marcell Lender 1895 by Toulouse Lautrec (TL), an obsession of TL. She played Galswinthe in Hervé's Chilpéric (operetta) at Théâtre des Variétés, dancing the bolero in a Spanish costume. 

At the Circus 1887 by L. Anquetin, a favorite subject of TL

Chez Bruant (Mirliton, Montmartre), of Black Cat fame.  1886-7 by L. Anquetin. La Goulue is the girl centre stage. Artist Paul Tampier is on the right, seen from the back. Painter Émile Bernard is on the left. TL is behind in the far background, standing on a table in a red shirt. 

The black cat from May Belfort fame