Soon, Maurice Jouayan, his former classmate in the Lyceum Fontana, joined Lautrec’s company, with whom he again became friends. Maurice Jouayan came from a good family and had great tact

A public house is an institution that is not able to successfully “function” without organization and strict submission to the owners. The “labor force” must obediently submit to those who,

Lautrec prepared the third poster, commissioned by Jean Sarrazin, a curious person from the Montmartre bohemia, who opened a new cabaret “Divan Japone” on Martir Street. Jean Sarrazen, this popularizer

In the middle of the summer Lautrec waited a great, real joy. Having printed a drawing from the composition “The Hangover, or the Drunkard”, Lautrec presented it to his distant

In the workshop of Cormon, in addition to the artist-symbolist Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec became acquainted with Van Gogh. The personality of the genius won the young artist, and he decided to

A peculiar romantic story surrounds the creation of the picture “Passenger of the 54th”. Lautrec, in the company of his friend, Ghibera, wishing to visit the southwest of France, decided

Montmartre really attracted less and less Lautrec. Now he was in various parts of Paris. In the autumn he took his friends to the Folies-Berger, where American dancer Loy Füller

As a beginning artist, Lautrec occasionally wrote for the exercise a man’s naked nature. But he was much more successful in depicting naked women. The female body of Lautrec looks

This is probably the most famous poster of Toulouse-Lautrec. Despite the fact that this is the artist’s only third work of this kind, the poster is so simple and monumental

Many of Lautrec’s works are devoted to scenes from the life of brothels. In Paris, the artist had two favorite brothels, where he sometimes spent weeks wandering around here with

Pastel Lautrec often sketched. Much less often he used it to create finished works. The most famous pastel of the artist is the profile portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, written

New dances, appearing in the 1890s, enjoyed a frenzied success among the Parisians. Lautrec, keen on them no less than others, tried, without delaying the cases in a long box,

In the workshop, where classes began again, Lautrec sang Bruyan’s verses in all his throat. The disagreements between Cormon and his disciples intensified. A riot was ripe. Some students, led

In the same summer of 1889, Lautrec spent several weeks in Malmö, where he met his father and cousin Gabriel Tapier de Suleiran, who entered the University of Lille at

Represented and sung by Toulouse-Lautrec, clowns, ballerinas, cabaret dancers, ladies of “half-light” and other representatives of bohemia are still able to shock the public to this day. The painting “Two

“Jardin de Paris” very soon became the most fashionable place in the city, because there “they smoked in a big way”. Oller provided for its visitors entertainment for all tastes:

Lautrec wrote several paintings claiming the title of masterpieces, and one of these works is “Clowness Sha-Yu-Kao.” The time of popularity has come, his talent becomes recognized and the young