Toulouse-Lautrec

Moulin Rouge posters — Montmartre chronicler

The aristocrat who lived in Montmartre's cabarets and brothels and turned their world into art. His posters for the Moulin Rouge revolutionized graphic design; his paintings of dancers, singers, and prostitutes combine Degas's draughtsmanship with a compassion and mordant wit entirely his own. Crippled, alcoholic, dead at 36.

Key works

• Moulin Rouge: La Goulue1891— The poster that invented modern graphic art
  Multiple impressions — Metropolitan Museum, New York; others
• At the Moulin Rouge1892-1895— Nightlife as art — absinthe green and gaslight
  Art Institute of Chicago

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