Toulouse-Lautrec's The Circus: Thirty-Nine Crayon Drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A bareback rider's skirt ripples within the breeze, an acrobat bends his muscular limbs right into a handstand, and a poodle obeys a clown brandishing a whip. The circus is on the town! those kaleidoscopic visions from below the massive most sensible provide audiences a chain of post-Impressionistic sideshows, courtesy of thirty-nine terrific crayon drawings within the targeted kind of Toulouse-Lautrec.
These scenes came about faraway from the artist's usual haunts, the bars and cafes of Montmartre. whereas Toulouse-Lautrec was once on the top of his creative powers, he used to be pressured to endure remedy for alcoholism at a rustic health facility. looking aid from his compelled confinement, he sketched vignettes from an area circus troupe's rehearsals. His delicate interpretations of the scenes mirror the cruelty at the back of the performers' unique feats, in addition to his self-image as an entertainer, an intruder, and a captive.
Although those drawings are masterpieces of composition and circulate, the artist gave them away. The originals have been scattered throughout Europe and the United States for many years, till an intrepid collector tracked them down. those reproductions are the paintings of a famous lithographer, Fernand Mourlot, whose ability recaptures the colour and spirit of Toulouse-Lautrec's works.

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