Dazzling, ferocious, affable: the eye of Toulouse-Lautrec reveals his immense humanity in the retrospective at the Grand Palais: some two hundred works with an expressiveness devoid of cliché.
Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901), Rousse, 1889, oil on cardboard, 67 x 54 cm.
Since 1992, the year of his last major retrospective in France, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has slumbered in somewhat hazy recollections of the painters' Montmartre and the Paris underworld. Our memories needed reviving; we needed to see in the legendary rebel the gentleman, the aristocratic street urchin, the tender, ingenuous man as well as the mischievous, delighted sensualist in insatiable quest of excess. Danièle…
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