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Portrait of Oscar Wilde by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Portrait of Oscar Wilde by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

Not all celebrities agreed to pose for Lautrec, knowing his uncompromising character when writing portraits, when models were not always depicted in a profitable perspective, and sometimes, caustically and caricaturedly. “Portrait of Oscar Wilde” – a picture written against the will of the writer himself.

During one of his trips to London, where the artist felt at home, he met Wilde, and he did not like the look of an esthete with fanciful manners, nor his arrogant behavior. When the writer rejected Lautrec’s proposal to portray his portrait, the artist did not consider this a problem, and with all the power of his sharp brush he created on the cardboard the psychological image of the writer in all “glory”, subtly transferring his oppressed state. At that time, Wilde really did not have a reason for a joyful mood: he was accused of homosexuality, and the proceedings were under way.

The phenomenal memory of the artist retained all the nuances of the writer’s appearance, and with the help of a caricature-conditional manner, Lautrec left his descendants with an “impression” of communication with the London celebrity: the capital dandy and the handsome man, who had previously driven the crazy sex, retained only externally majestic appearance, in an aged flabbergasted man with caricature features.

Loud fame also passed into the past, and at the age of forty-one, a successful writer landed in jail.

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