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 less than the large best provide audiences a sequence of post-Impressionistic sideshows, courtesy of thirty-nine tremendous crayon drawings within the distinct type of Toulouse-Lautrec.
These scenes came about faraway from the artist's universal haunts, the bars and cafes of Montmartre. whereas Toulouse-Lautrec used to be on the peak of his creative powers, he was once forced to endure therapy for alcoholism at a rustic hospital. looking aid from his pressured confinement, he sketched vignettes from a neighborhood circus troupe's rehearsals. His delicate interpretations of the scenes replicate the cruelty in the back of the performers' unique feats, in addition to his self-image as an entertainer, an interloper, 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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