Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(1864-1901) Toulouse-Lautrec is the precursor of poster art and a great representative of Parisian nightlife. His groundbreaking work is framed in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre, in its cabarets and theaters, in its endless nights and its peculiar characters. This artistic universe, from which Toulouse-Lautrec drew, promoted the great cultural movements of the 20th century.

The characters and environments reproduced by Toulouse-Lautrec reflected his unusual creative freedom, a prelude to the new trends in contemporary art.