Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose inclusion in the radiant and theatrical moving picture of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a accretion of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
Toulouse-Lautrec is in the course of the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat.
In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his into the future painting of a pubescent laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a additional record for the artiste for a price at auction.
Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both his legs something like the period of his adolescence and, due to an ordinary medical condition, was very immediate as an adult due to his undersized legs. In addition to his alcoholism, he developed an affinity for brothels and prostitutes that directed the subject business for many of his works.
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