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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1894
His posters were famous and were collected in his lifetime. The people in his paintings were always real people. Here, the dancer was La Goulou, which means "gullet" and therefore "Greedy-guts". The man is her partner on stage, Valentin le désossé. That means "boneless".

Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter of the Post-Impressionist period. He was born into a noble family, but lived for most of his life among the actors, dancers and prostitutes of Paris. He is famous for painting the lives of these people, the entertainment of Paris, and many portraits.

He was expert at drawing and also made many printed posters to advertise entertainments.

In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.[1]

  1. ↑ "The New York Sun 11/02/2005". Archived from the original on 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2010-10-29.

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