Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Lautrec's Bitter Theater
By Richard Dorment
The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
edited by Herbert D. Schimmel, Introduction by Gale B. Murray
Oxford University Press, 444 pp., $59.00
Toulouse-Lautrec 1991–January 19, 1992 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 21–June 1, 1992
an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 10,
Toulouse-Lautrec Yale University Press
catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, by Claire Frèches-Thory, by Anne Roquebert, by Danièle Devynck
South Bank Centre/ Reunion des musées nationaux, distributed by, 557 pp., $65.00
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891
by Gale B. Murray
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 289 pp., $120.00
Nightlife of Paris: The Art of Toulouse Lautrec
by Patrick O'Connor
Universe Books, 79 pp., $25.95
When Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died at the age of thirty-six in 1901 after a working life of less than twenty years, he left 737 paintings, 5,084 drawings, more than 300 prints, and 275 watercolors. Clearly the image that has come down to us of the highspirited genius who drank himself to death with the riffraff of bohemian Montmartre, and worked only fitfully, is inadequate.
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