Toulouse-Lautrec - A Life by Julia Frey

By Julia Frey

Debauched aristocrat, cabaret painter, unintended dwarf? Julia Freys definitive, fantastically researched biography strips away the parable of Toulouse-Lautrec to bare the tortured guy underneath. it is a striking and compelling portrait, that includes one hundred thirty five photographs and illustrations.

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Aware of the struggle between his to reconcile their personalities, poignantly symbolized by contrasting images: the wild boar in the garden and the nightly vespers in the chapel. In a generous gesture, Adele had offered his beautiful christening robe and name, with fleurs de lis), all Henry's baby clothes, including (embroidered, in keeping with his royal lineage to her sister-in-law Aunt Alix, who was pregnant with her first child. ' She must have been surprised a month later to discover that at the very time she wrote that letter she was pregnant again herself.

Around his native Rouergat countryside, he had a reputation for being able to wear out three horses in a single day. The women he social class, seduced, but barmaids and farm it was girls, said, were not who did 'not women mix of his own love into matters of copulation'. Alphonse once described his marriage to Adele as resulting from the 'impetuosity of impulse' and, even after his son's death, spoke of the passionate love which had produced the child against his better judgment. lovers', he added and should never have been married.

Even under his clothes, Lautrec dressed strangely, insisting on wearing layers of underwear, knitted longjohns and extra undershirts, no matter friend a red shirt what the weather. Was he, like other advanced alcoholics, using this padding imagined protection from the hostile gaze of others? A skilled doctor, looking at his body moulded by the underwear, would as immediately have understood a number of things about the crippled artist. Silhouetted in the studio lamplight, his physical appearance verged on the monstrous.

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