Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
'I Am a Pencil'
By Murray Kempton
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 7, 1985 - January 26, 1986)
There would seem to be few occasions with less promise of revelation than the Museum of Modern Art's current show of the graphic work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His posters are all about us and seem always to have been; he has acquired the superficiality of universal exposure and, more to our misfortune than his, he is one of those artists who became a banality before we had or took the time to give them the proper attention.
Review, 805 words
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