Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Posters, Books, Video, Links for Learning
for art history and social studies classrooms, art studios, & home schoolers.

	• HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC POSTERS
	Masterworks of Art - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 'At the Moulin Rouge' is one of about 30 of Toulouse-Lautrec's illustrations of the famous Paris music hall. In the painting you can see Toulouse-Lautrec seated in the backgroung among his friends. The Masterworks of Art poster series posters give a short biography of the artist, a critique of the painting, and suggestions for activities.
	Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris, 1893, Giclee Print	Jane Avril (1868-1943), Louise "La Goulue" Weber (1866-1929), Loie Fuller "La Loie" (1862-1928), and Marcelle Lender (1862-1926) were dancers all immortalized in the art of Lautrec.
	Study for Loie Fuller at the Folies Bergeres, 1893, Giclee Print	Mlle. Eglantine, Art Print
	La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge, Giclee Print	Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilperic," 1895, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print
	Yvette Guilbert, Giclee Print Toulouse-Lautrec made many portraits and caricatures of cabaret entertainer Yvette Guilbert, capturing her usual pose of standing very still in a bright yellow dress and long black gloves.
	Aristide Bruant Dans son Cabaret, Lithograph Aristide Bruant (b. 5-6-1851; France - d. 2-10-1925) was a cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner who is best recognized as the man in the red scarf and black cape on the famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
	Acrobats in the Circus, Giclee Print Lautrec did a series of circus drawing when he was confined to a private asylum for his alcoholism - when the doctors saw his work they released him as “no sane man could do such work”.
	Etude de Chevaux, Giclee Print Toulouse-Lautrec was a extraordinary at catching the gesture of his subjects - as in this case of a study of horses.
	Woman at Her Toilette, Study for "Elles", circa 1896, Giclee Print Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec illustrated intimate moments, in this case a woman sitting at her dressing table, or toilet in the original meaning of the French word.
	Vincent Van Gogh, by Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print Lautrec's portrait of his friend Vincent Van Gogh was one of his few pastel drawings. He adapted the Impressionists, and Van Gogh's, short, hatched strokes in place of his usual long flowing strokes.
	The Hangover, (Suzanne Valadon), Giclee Print Suzanne Valadon was a favorite model of Lautrec's as well as an artist. She may have had an affair with him.

“I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.”

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”

Books : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre - Childhood illness and injuries steered Toulouse-Lautrec away from customary rural aristocratic avocations and toward a profession as an artist. He became a painter, draftsman, and lithographer whose work was immersed in famously hedonistic, fin-de-siècle Paris. In his hands, advertising posters were raised to a high art; he portrayed the nightlife of Montmartre-circuses, cafés, dance halls, and brothels-with clear, bold color and a certain seamy panache that is instantly recognizable as his. His much mythologized life has found its way into many biographies and into two feature-length movies called Moulin Rouge. (book description) 370 color plates of Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries; companion book to exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre - DVD

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Moulin Rouge and the City of Light - Grades 4-8 biography of French artist best known today for his vibrant and much-loved posters. Along with explaining the development of the poster medium, the book tells the moving tale of how Lautrec triumphed over a crippling childhood disease to become a popular artist in his day. The book is illustrated with gorgeous reproductions of his paintings, posters, and drawings, ranging from childhood sketches, to portraits of performers at the famous Moulin Rouge, to circus themes. Contemporary photographs of Lautrec and his friends bring the story to life. (book description)

The Drawings of Toulouse-Lautrec - Longstreet

Toulouse-Lautrec Art Activity Pack -

Color Your Own Toulouse-Lautrec Masterpieces - (Ages 9-12) Thirty of the great post-Impressionist's most famous works — including The Jockey; Jane Avril; and Moulin Rouge, La Goulue — fill this collection. Colorists can re-create or modify with their own hues masterpieces that capture lively scenes from circuses, dance halls, nightclubs, racetracks, and other spectacles. (book description)

Toulouse-Lautrec's The Circus: Thirty-Nine Crayon Drawings in Color - These kaleidoscopic visions from the big top offer a series of post-Impressionistic sideshows, courtesy of brilliant drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec. Masterpieces of composition and movement include “The Rearing Horse,” “The Jockey,” and “The Animal-trainer.” (book description)

Henry de Toulouse Lautrec, Woman as Myth: Woman as Myth (exhibition catalogue) -

The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Collected here for the first time in a full edition, the letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . . . all the known extant correspondence . . spanning his entire life . . . from the bright optimism of his conventional, aristocratic childhood, through the years when he was an avant-garde artist at the height of his powers, to his tragic deterioration, breakdown, and early death. The letters are rich in factual data, and contain numerous art historical revelations. English translation of French original.

Montmarte Note Card set (boxed) - From the mid-nineteenth century until the onset of the First World War, the steep hill called Montmartre was a magnet that attracted the full spectrum of Parisian society. Known for its windmills (moulins), the neighborhood had a reputation as a home to the artistic, the bohemian, and the risqué. The dancer La Goulue drew crowds to the open-air dance floor at Moulin de la Galette; the singer Aristide Bruant scandalized the more polite visitors to the Moulin Rouge with his scabrous social satire. Roughnecks preyed on the affluent and inobservant.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wikipedia

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, WebMuseum

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec site - biography from Albi to Montmartre and the Moulin-Rouge, paintings, lithographs, drawings, posters, photographs.

  Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre - National Gallery of Art

• Lesson plan idea - design a Toulouse-Lautrec inspired poster for your own dance or music concert. Toulouse-Lautrec used
  • bold colors,
  • variety of lettering styles,
  • silhouettes.