| Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec or Henri | | | | his health. On September 9, 1901, at the young age |
| Toulouse-Lautrec, a Post- Impressionist artist, was | | | | of 36, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec succumbed to a stroke |
| born on November 24, 1864, to a patrician family in | | | | at the Chateau. He was cremated near the Calvary |
| Albi, France. The son of Count Alphonse-Charles de | | | | Hill, at Verdelais. Posthumously, vast demand was |
| Toulouse-Lautrec and Adele Tapié de | | | | created for his paintings and posters, which fetched |
| Céleyran, Henri was the last progeny in a | | | | towering prices at auctions and sales. |
| lineage of aristocrats and was due to take over as | | | | Compared to the other artists of his era, Henri shot |
| the Count of Toulouse, had he not died prior to his | | | | to fame and established himself as an artist, quite |
| father. Due his delicate physical health, he was quiet a | | | | early, in his brief lifespan. His style was solitary, full of |
| protected child who never got enough opportunities | | | | powerful play of colors and the delicate brush |
| to enjoy his aristocratic lifestyle. Henri fractured both | | | | strokes. A representation of movements in his |
| his legs by a fall, in his adolescence, atrophying the | | | | surroundings was always portrayed in his works. |
| normal growth of his legs. Abetted by an inherited | | | | Henri's use of movements was quite contrary to the |
| calcium deficiency and a pair of crippled limbs, he was | | | | existing approach of anatomic correctness of |
| permanently stunted for life. | | | | depictions in contemporary art. Later on, art historian |
| In 1882, Henri shifted to Paris to pursue his studies in | | | | recognized him as an inventor of Art-Poster for the |
| Art and settled in Montmartre. Absorbed in to the | | | | sheer brilliance in his swift sketches and paintings. |
| bohemian existence of the period and addicted to | | | | Some of Henri's famous works are the "Moulin |
| alcohol, he soon became an aficionado of nightlife. He | | | | Rouge-La Goulue (1891)," the "Portrait of Gabrielle," |
| became a regular guest at the cafes and cabaret | | | | the "May Belfort," the "At the Moulin Rouge: Two |
| entertainment centers like the Moulin Rouge. | | | | Women Waltzing," "In Bed (1893)," and "At the Circus |
| Throughout the carousing, Henri sketched and | | | | Fernando." |
| painted, picking his cues from the scenes of the | | | | An inconsiderate and sharp raconteur of both the |
| Parisian nightclubs. All the works were put on canvas, | | | | flashy Parisian nightlife and the fetid rudiments of |
| or completed into lithographs. Alcoholism started | | | | late-19th-century society, Henri dared and intrepidly |
| taking its toll on his health and in the year 1899, he | | | | fought all the physical odds in his life to taste success |
| suffered a spell of delirium tremens. To top it all, he | | | | eventually. He died at the age of thirty-six years, on |
| contracted syphilis and completely lost the track of | | | | September 09, 1901 at Malrome. |