The hard-drinking Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, thirty-four in…
1898 CE
The hard-drinking Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, thirty-four in 1898, has observed and documented with great psychological insight the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s, during which he reputedly has helped popularize the cocktail.
The extreme simplification in outline and movement and the use of large color areas make his posters some of his most powerful works.
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Maurice Guibert: Toulouse-Lautrec in atelier (circa 1895)