Paintings by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec- these are prostitutes and actresses, cancan, jesters and dancers. The work of Toulouse Lautrec is the legacy of a true impressionist artist who painted life as it is.
If you can characterize paintings by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in one word - that word will be “cabaret”. It is the artists, interiors, whores and cabaret regulars that are depicted a little less than in all the artist’s paintings.
You won't see angels fluttering around the Madonna here. Like most impressionists, Henri depicted reality without embellishment, focusing on individuality. Lautrec rather emphasized the peculiar features of nature than idealized it, like academic artists.
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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, the artist's work.
Lautrec's work is distinguished by its brevity and deep psychologism. Henri was not particularly interested in the correctness of anatomical proportions, like academic artists, or color and light components, like other impressionists. He does not have the same color analysis as Monet. What is present in the paintings of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec is the character of the character, the mood, even a certain grotesqueness of the image. With precise, expressive strokes and lines, Lautrec wonderfully reflects a person’s character and emotional state. It is not for nothing that he is called a master of sketching and psychological portrait.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, paintings by the artist with titles, characters.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's paintings depict characters who are no less interesting than the works themselves. For example, La Goulue (glutton) is a famous dancer of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, who used to drink from the glasses of visitors and treat herself at their expense. “Queen of Montmartre” - that’s what they called her. She ended her life no less tragically than Toulouse Lautrec. Alcohol broke her; at the end of her life, La Goulue lived in poverty, earning food and booze by selling matches and cigarettes.
Jane Avril, also a cancan dancer, is the complete opposite of La Goulle. A refined, melancholic nature, who, through the twists and turns of fate, ended up in a cabaret. An outcast among her colleagues, who called her "Crazy Jane." Avril became a close friend of the artist and often posed for him in his studio.
Yvette Guilbert, an actress whose artsy, original image impressed Henri so much. Red Rose, a girl of easy virtue, is the same one who infected him with syphilis. Thousands of them.
Posters by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.
Personally, I like Henri’s graphics even more than his scenic paintings. Posters of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec They did very well what they were intended for - they advertised the glitz and vice of the Parisian demimonde, alcohol, vice and the cancan. It was the posters that brought the artist the desired fame. Despite the fact that Henri painted more than dozens of posters, it is quite difficult to find them on the Internet, because particularly “smart” individuals confuse them with the graphics of another famous artist - Jules Cheret (a real poster monster, by the way, also a very interesting artist).
The great artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a writer of everyday life in Paris and a regular at the Moulin Rouge, made probably the strangest somersault in the history of painting: he preferred the life of a noble rich man to the existence of a bohemian outcast and alcoholic. Lautrec was one of the most cheerful singers of vice, since his inspiration always had only three main sources and three components: brothels, Night Paris and, of course, alcohol.
Lautrec grew up in a family of classic aristocratic degenerates: his ancestors participated in the Crusades, and his parents were cousins. Papa Lautrec was a complete alcoholic eccentric: at lunchtime he had the habit of going out in a blanket and a tutu. Henri himself was a very picturesque example of aristocratic degeneration. Due to a hereditary disease, the bones of his legs stopped growing after childhood injuries; as a result, Henri’s full torso was crowned with Lilliputian legs. His height barely exceeded 150 centimeters. His head was disproportionately large, and his lips were thick and turned out.
At the age of 18, Lautrec first experienced the taste of alcohol, the sensation of which he for some reason compared to “the taste of a peacock’s tail in the mouth.” Lautrec soon became a living mascot of the entertainment establishments of Paris. He practically lived in the brothels of Montmartre. Relationships between pimps and whores, drunken outrages of the rich, sexually transmitted diseases, the aging bodies of dancers, vulgar makeup - this is what fed the artist’s talent. Lautrec himself was no stranger: the young prostitute Marie Charlet once told Montmartre about the unprecedented size of the artist’s manhood, and Toulouse himself jokingly called himself “a coffee pot with a huge nose.” He drank the “coffee pot” all night long, then got up early and worked hard, after which he again began to wander around the taverns and drink cognac and absinthe.
Gradually, delirium tremens and syphilis took their toll: Lautrec painted less and less, and drank more and more, turning from a cheerful jester into an evil dwarf. As a result, by the age of 37 he was struck by paralysis, after which the artist died almost immediately - as befits an aristocrat, in his family castle. Drunk dad Lautrec put a tragicomic end to his dissolute life genius artist: Considering that the carriage with the coffin in which Henri lay was moving too slowly, he spurred on the horses, so that people were forced to skip after the coffin in order to keep up.
Genius against use
1882 - 1885 Henri comes from his native Albi to Paris and becomes an apprentice in a workshop, where he receives the nickname “liquor bottle”. From the letter: “Dear mother! Send a barrel of wine; According to my calculations, I will need one and a half barrels a year.”
1886 - 1892 Lautrec's parents provide him with maintenance, and he rents a studio and apartment in Montmartre. Next to the easel, Henri holds a battery of bottles: “I can drink without fear, I don’t have to fall too far!” He meets Van Gogh, paints the painting “The Hangover, or the Drunkard” under his influence.
1893 - 1896 Goes to Brussels for an exhibition, at the border he argues with customs officers for the right to bring a box of juniper vodka and Belgian beer to Paris. Usually he drinks to the point of disgrace: “Saliva flowed down the lace of his pince-nez and dripped onto his vest” (A. Perruchot. “The Life of Toulouse-Lautrec”). At a social reception he acts as a bartender, deciding to knock off high society, for which he prepares killer cocktails. He boasts that he served more than two thousand glasses during the night.
1897 - 1898 Drinks so much that he loses interest in drawing. Friends are trying to take him out on a boat because “he didn’t drink while at sea.” He falls in love with his relative Alina and thinks about quitting drunkenness. But Alina’s father forbids her to meet with Henri, and he goes on a drinking binge.
1899 After an attack of delirium tremens, the artist’s mother insisted that he go to a mental hospital. There he is given only water to drink. One day Lautrec discovers dressing table bottle of dental elixir and drinks it. Trying to draw again.
1901 Leaves the clinic and returns to Paris in April 1901. At first he leads a sober lifestyle, but, seeing that his hand does not obey him, out of grief he begins to secretly drink. Lautrec's legs are taken away and he is transported to the castle. The father, bored at the bedside of the dying man, shoots flies on the blanket with a shoe eraser. "Old fool!" - Lautrec exclaims and dies. But his paintings are doing better and better: “The Laundress” was purchased in 2008 for $22.4 million. And his image lives on: the lorgnette Karla, the patron of the Parisian demimonde, continues to excite the minds of modern creators (see “Moulin Rouge” by Luhrmann).
“What is Montmartre? Nothing. What should it be? Everyone!”
Rodolphe Saly, owner of the Cha Noir cabaret
"Attention! Here comes the whore. But don't think that this is some random girl. First class product! — broke at the entrance Aristide Bruant, famous crooner and the owner of the newly opened Mirliton cabaret. Henri, he was only 24 years old, watched with admiration Bruan and the bohemians who crowded here every evening.
"Elise-Montmartre". 1888. Photo: Public Domain
"Thank you. I had a wonderful evening. Finally, for the first time in my life, they called me an old brat to my face,” one of the avid visitors, a division general, spoke about “Mirliton.” A sign soon appeared above the entrance: “Those who like to be insulted come here.” By ten o'clock in the evening it was impossible to get inside - the cabaret was overcrowded. Parties took place every day, the noise did not subside until two in the morning.
This building used to house a cabaret. Rodolphe Saly, one of the most famous figures of Montmartre. However, Sali decided to move to Laval Street, away from the poor idlers and outright thugs. Nevertheless, his updated Sha-Noir was still popular.
The Moulin de la Galette also drew full houses, where it was always dark and dirty, and on Mondays there was an almost obligatory stabbing. "Elise-Montmartre" is a more decent establishment, with professional dancers and a guard on duty in the back rows Commissioner of Police Cutla du Rocher. They called him “Daddy Chastity” here.
At first, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec loved Elise-Montmartre most of all, but when Mirliton opened in place of the pretentious, in his opinion, Cha Noir, the young artist became a regular there and soon became friends with Bruant.
“These idiots understand absolutely nothing about my songs,” Bruan told a friend. “They don’t know what poverty is, and from birth they are swimming in gold.” I take revenge on them by insulting them, and they laugh until they cry, thinking that I am joking. But in fact, I often think about the past, about the humiliations I experienced, about the dirt that I had to see. All this comes up in a lump in the throat and pours out on them in a stream of abuse.”
“Marcella Lander dancing a bolero at the Schilperic cabaret,” 1895. Photo: Public Domain
Toulouse-Lautrec also bathed in gold as a child. He came from a distinguished line of generals and commanders, but he also had reasons to hate the establishment. Bruant's Mirliton became his new home. “Quiet, gentlemen! I've arrived great artist Toulouse-Lautrec with one of his friends and some pimp I don’t know,” Henri was loudly greeted at Mirliton.
"Little Treasure" of Bosc Castle
Toulouse-Lautrec moved to Montmartre at the age of 19. He left behind his father, his pious mother, aristocratic balls, unfinished higher education and luxurious family estates. At home, Henri was called “Little Treasure”, cherished and cherished.
He was the most active child in the family and could not imagine better activities than hunting and horse riding. In this sense, he completely coincided with his father - a fearless officer, famous not only for military, but also for romantic victories. Free time Count Alphonse devoted to drinking and eccentric antics. It didn’t cost him anything to go out for a walk in the armor of a medieval knight. Neighbors and his wife considered the count eccentric; Henri adored his father and looked up to him.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
At the same time, “Little Treasure” could not help but notice his mother’s worries. In my time Countess Adele I considered myself a real lucky woman, but now I was clearly tired of my husband’s infidelities. Formally, Henri's parents separated when he was four years old - immediately after his death youngest son Richard. However, then the count returned home several times, and the countess was afraid to contradict him.
At the age of 14, Henri fell from a horse and broke his left femur. For the next 40 days, the teenager did not get out of bed, the bones fused with difficulty, and recovery lasted a year and a half. But as soon as Henri was able to lead an active lifestyle, he climbed onto the horse again and fell again, this time breaking his right hip.
After this, Henri did not grow a centimeter, and until his death his height was one and a half meters. What was much worse was that his body continued to develop, and over time, “Little Treasure” turned into a disproportionate monster with a huge head and short legs. Until the end of his days he walked with a cane.
For the mother this became a tragedy, but for the father it brought only disappointment and irritation: why does he need a son with whom you can’t even shoot a partridge? Count Alphonse believed that his first-born son had been taken away from him and no longer perceived Henri as his son. Then everyone believed that Henri was just a weak and awkward teenager; at that time they did not know about hereditary osteogenesis and genetic diseases of children of close relatives. Henri's parents were cousins.
The mother continued to love and support her son, but she knew that for the snobs from the aristocratic circle, Henri would become an object of ridicule. The daring of fierce battles and ornate ballroom steps are valued here.
Henri himself understood what was happening, although he tried not to show it. He himself was the most ironic about his ugliness - preemptive strike, because one way or another someone else will make a cruel joke. He loved to go hunting with his father, and he realized that now only painting was left in his life.
Having passed his matriculation exams and successfully studied in several art workshops, by the age of 19, young Toulouse-Lautrec realized that the time had come to start his own life.
The wicked charm of Montmartre
Lautrec settled with friends - Rene And Lily Grenier at rue Fontaine, 19 bis. Lily was very popular, loved by artists, musicians and entrepreneurs. Henri also fell in love with her, although he had the tact to restrain himself. Lily most likely had no idea about this, and they became close friends.
"In the salon on the Rue de Moulins." 1894. Photo: Public Domain
In Grenier's company, Lautrec was the ringleader; he willingly participated in all the entertainment that Lily came up with. Henri was known as a master of small talk and invariably impressed the assembled guests. Together with his friends, Henri often went to the cabaret, where he also became the life of the party. Lautrec also became a regular at the brothel on Steinkerk Street.
Lautrec no longer had any illusions - he didn’t want to go to the dance floor. Every evening, Henri ordered glass after glass and drew everyone he met - on napkins, scraps of paper, charcoal, and pencil. Literally everything was used. Drawing was intoxicating young man no less wine. “I can drink without fear, because, alas, I can’t fall very far!” - he joked.
The attentive eye of the artist noticed at first glance all the features of the “target”; Henri could express them with a single line. He painted drunken poets and hopeless prostitutes, famous journalists and writers, representatives of the world and the demi-monde. Lautrec painted everyone indiscriminately - he was interested in personality, he depicted character, not appearance.
"Worthless." 1891. Photo: Public Domain
In brothels, Lautrec met people who no longer had anything to hide or lose. For him, who grew up among snobs, the scammers, pimps and prostitutes in the smoky halls of the Elise-Montmartre, Moulin de la Galette and Mirliton were a breath of clean air.
Mirliton, meanwhile, flourished. Bruant earned 50 thousand francs a year (about €3.5 million in today's money). The whole of Montmartre gathered here, and street prostitutes hid during street raids. On Fridays, parties were held here for a sophisticated audience - entrance cost 12 times more.
"Glutton" from "Moulin Rouge"
In October 1889, Montmartre was buzzing - extravagant businessman Joseph Oller announced that the Moulin Rouge will open on the site of the Rennes Blanche, which was demolished four years ago. All the revelers of Paris came to the opening, including Prince Trubetskoy And Comte de La Rochefoucauld. Toulouse-Lautrec couldn’t pass by either.
One of the walls of the huge hall was mirrored. The room was brightly illuminated by ramps and chandeliers, and glass balls hung everywhere. The girls on stage danced a square dance, and the already well-known La Goulue, nicknamed “The Glutton,” became the prima dancer at the Moulin Rouge.
She was 23 years old, she had already conquered Montparnasse and became the main star of the Moulin de la Galette. The girl appeared to the public as an arrogant and arrogant woman who had tried almost everything in life. At the end of the performance, she did not bow, silently turned around and, swaying her hips in black skirt five meters wide, went behind the scenes. La Goulue knew that hundreds of men's eyes were eagerly following her delicious legs. “Would you like to treat the lady?” - this is how every conversation she had began when she went down to the hall.
Among La Goulue's admirers was Lautrec. The Moulin Rouge contained everything he loved, and from the very first evening Henri became a regular guest here. He would start the evening at the Mirliton, then stop by the bar on the way to Cha Noir, and finally end the evening at the Moulin Rouge. He did not forget about the brothels, which he visited with the diligence of a good schoolboy.
“La Goulue with two friends at the Moulin Rouge,” 1892. Photo: Public Domain
Joseph Oller had heard a lot about the famous artist. He sought to make the Moulin Rouge even more famous and for this he wanted to hang bright and unusual posters around the city. Promotional poster for the opening of the Moulin Rouge was painted by a recognized master Jules Cheret, but the 55-year-old master depicted a cabaret with fluttering Pierrots and angels. Oller needed something brighter and more vicious.
Lautrec agreed to Oller's proposal instantly. In the center of his first poster was La Goulue. Minimal expressive means the artist was able to convey all the notes of the desired image - a smoky room, a crowd of onlookers whose gaze is turned to La Goulue, her always distant expression and flirtatious, provocative poses.
Henri felt that he could realize himself as an artist in advertising. Yes, compared to the paintings of the Impressionists, their deep analysis of light and shadow, deep feelings and fleeting sensations, cabaret posters - low genre. But there were no rules here, and Lautrec could paint as he saw fit.
The posters from La Goulue, hung all over the Boulevard Clichy, worked; the Moulin Rouge was sold out every evening. The style chosen by Lautrec was perfect. He portrayed simple images, subtly noticing the psychology of personality in them. On his posters, people became understandable and easily readable characters. Henri's posters were sincere and truthful - they depicted exactly what awaited the visitor behind the doors of the cabaret.
“Moulin Rouge, La Goulue” 1891. Photo: Public Domain
Oller did not have time to count the profits; La Goulue became the face and soul of Moulin Rouge. Cabaret, in turn, took a central place in the nightlife of Montmartre, which became the only place in Paris that was worth going there in the 19th century.
Lautrec was also doing well. His large-scale paintings were exhibited among activists of the Brussels G20, they were highly appreciated Edgar Degas. The artist often went to the theater, where, together with the Grenier spouses, he threw shoes at the actors if they, in their opinion, played poorly. Lautrec spent several weeks on the yacht Cocorico in the Gulf of Arcachon. Henri lived frivolously and did not deny himself anything. People found out about the artist; it was an undoubted success.
A complex freak with a disproportionate body, he always trusted the opinions of others more than his own. That is why he was happy to hear praise from his teachers, that is why he wanted to exhibit with the Impressionists, and that is why he was glad to become a famous artist - to realize himself in the only field available to him.
In total, Lautrec created more than three hundred posters for the Moulin Rouge. Among the public, he was no less famous than La Goulue herself, and this could not help but flatter Henri, whom his own father had once abandoned.
Aristocrat's Curse
Lautrec did not forget about his illness for a second and believed that its cause was his own awkwardness. He did not mince his words and was sometimes known as a cynic among the public. However, those close to him understood that behind his tough and impudent nature was hiding a frightened child, a “Little Treasure.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Portrait by Giovanni Boldini. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
He hated his father and often drew caricatures of him. At the same time, Henri loved his mother, but tried not to catch her eye, so as not to remind her of his ugliness.
Walking in the evenings, Lautrec could shout to the whole street that that girl over there would give herself to him for a couple of francs. However, friends - primarily Lily Grenier - knew that he was afraid of ridicule, and rudeness was a defensive reaction. Although the artist was constantly surrounded by friends, drinking buddies and prostitutes, deep down he remained lonely and tried with all his might to displace dark thoughts with alcohol.
In February 1899, after another attack of delirium tremens, Lautrec was sent to a psychiatric clinic for two months. Henri's health had already been undermined by syphilis - he became infected from the red-haired Rose, a regular visitor to Elise-Montmartre.
After treatment, Lautrec went to the Atlantic coast and in April 1901 returned to Paris, emaciated and completely weakened. Alcohol flowed like a river through the streets of Montmartre, and ignore these turbulent currents the artist did not intend to.
An unhealthy lifestyle continued to undermine Lautrec. Two months later, his body could not stand it anymore, and he left Paris again. A stroke that occurred in August paralyzed half of his body. Henri gave up and asked his mother to take him to her castle near Bordeaux. In this castle, in the arms of his mother, he died on September 9. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was 36 years old.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, Count Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa) - great French impressionist, post-impressionist artist. Born November 24, 1864 in Albi - died September 9, 1901 at Malromet Castle, Gironde.
The future artist was born into an aristocratic family. His parents were real counts. Very famous tragic story, which happened to the artist at the age of 13 and 14. When he was 13 years old, he accidentally broke the femur of his left leg while getting up from a chair; At the age of 14, after falling into a ditch, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec broke his right leg. After this, his legs stopped growing and remained only 70 centimeters long until the end of his life. Many who initially noticed this defect soon simply forgot about it. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec was wonderful person, and always spoke about his shortcomings with a great sense of self-irony. After Henri left in 1871 native land and moved to Paris, his life changed dramatically and forever.
In Paris he settled in Montmartre. This is where he lived his entire life. His favorite artists, from whose paintings he drew inspiration, were and other French post-impressionist artists. At the beginning of his career as an artist, he was engaged in lithography and creating posters. I often drew street life France, entertainment venues. His models were dancers, clowns, poets, theater actors, and singers.
Still, the problem with his legs and his height of 152 cm could not give him real happiness in life. Despite his efforts, many people laughed at his shortcomings, romance novels ended in a break. Art critics often treated his paintings poorly. As a result of all this, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec led a riotous lifestyle, drank a lot and died of alcoholism before he was 37 years old. The fame of the great post-impressionist artist of France and the world name came to him a few years after his death.
Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paintings:
Reading room at Melroom Castle
Reading newspaper in the garden
Gypsy de Richepin
Girl in a corset
Jeanne Avril
Cabaret Japanese Sofa
Milliner
Beginning of the quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
Dance lessons at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, biography, Interesting Facts from the life of an impressionist artist and paintings in between. Henri was a very curious person. The story of his life is no less interesting than his paintings. Lautrec is an artist of night cabarets and the Moulin Rouge in particular. It was the Moulin Rouge cabaret that served as a springboard for Lautrec to fame.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, biography, family and childhood.
So, imagine, here lives a family of these standard, self-satisfied aristocrats. Cousin Alphonse (dad) married to cousin(Mother). Well, without incest, it’s an aristocracy. Mom is quiet kind woman, from the series fast, pray, listen to radio Radonezh.
Dad is an exemplary eccentric aristocrat, a kind of crazy horseman, the life of the party, a lover of falconry and blackjack and whores of entertainment. According to rumors, he also loved eccentric antics a la Salvador Dali. If you believe Wikipedia, then love for prostitutes, alcohol, fairs, circuses and gloss Henri de Toulouse Lautrec the younger owes it to the elder.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, biography. Attitude to the artist’s work in the family.
However, nothing human is alien to aristocrats; Henri’s father and mother were educated people and good draftsmen. In the Lautrec houses there were a lot of things different paintings, drawings and sketches, and drawing was a frequent pastime. 
Alphonse Lautrec's friends also included Rene Princesteau, a skilled artist of all kinds of hunts, dogs and horses, from whom father and son often took lessons. It was René Princesteau who first noticed the talent Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and taught him the skill of quick sketching, drawing nature in motion.
All this, however, did not stop the father from reproaching his son for daring, unscrupulous, to become an artist. A descendant of an ancient family, he makes money (this alone is terrifying) by daubing canvas. A shame. Okay, okay, maybe I’m distorting a little - my father was a distinguished lover of painting, and in Lautrec’s work he was rather outraged by Henri’s manner as an artist and the objects of the image (well, prostitutes, cabaret performers, etc.). As they say, there is an impressionist in the family.
Biography of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, childhood and illness
So, in this family, where the husband changes women like gloves and poisons the unfortunate animals with falcons, and the mother quietly prays, a poor fellow is born Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. These circumstances alone could not have a positive effect on the child’s psyche. The hyper-protection of the mother and numerous castle servants also left their indelible imprint.
As a child, Henri, just like his father, loved to ride horses and chase animals. However, he did not differ in physical development and was often ill. However, he was a smart little guy and studied well. I was especially good at languages: Latin, English, everything. And everything would be fine, but at the age of 14 he falls and breaks his leg. Tellingly, he falls off his chair.
Obviously, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was sick with some kind of hereditary disease, like Lobstein's disease (crystal bone syndrome). This is followed by a long period of rehabilitation, all sorts of sanatoriums, Nice and people in white coats. And so, after a long recovery, a little more than a year later, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec the Younger falls again, this time into a ditch and again breaks his bones. Amazing luck. These injuries, as well as a possible genetic disease, led to “dwarfism” - the lower limbs practically stopped growing. Which saddened my father beyond words. 
He was counting, in the end, on a worthy successor to the family, who would do things worthy of an aristocrat - i.e. chase partridges, beat up frivolous high-born ladies, marry advantageously, and then die to fight for your homeland. Now hunting, balls and many other useless social entertainments of the aristocracy were inaccessible to Henri. But, every silver lining is without a beaver, as the artist himself said: “surprisingly, if my legs were a little longer, I would never have started painting.” During his illness, his passion for painting finally took over Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. Then he painted mainly his surroundings: animals, nature and relatives.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in Montmartre.
Soon, the artist, together with his mother, moved to Paris, where he studied in the workshop of Leon Bonn, by the way, a fairly good portrait painter. Bonna, a stern academic mastodon, despite all the zeal and reverence of Henri, however, did not appreciate Lautrec’s talent. Leona soon dissolves her workshop and Henri moves to study with Fernand Cormon (the same one with whom Van Gogh studied). Although Cormon himself gravitated toward academic painting, he still held broader views than Bonna. 
At the age of 19, the artist decides that it is time and moves to Montmartre. This is where Henri de Toulouse Lautrec goes into all sorts of troubles, doesn’t leave the taverns for days on end and works all day long, drawing prostitutes, circus performers, artists and regulars, not forgetting to drink liters of wine. Henri's second home was the Mirliton cabaret, and its owner Bruan was one of his best friends. Toulouse Lautrec shuttled between hot spots in Montmartre: Cha Noir, Moulin de la Galette, Mirliton.
The artist lived to the fullest, trying to drown out disappointment in himself with the brilliance of Montmartre, drawing and alcohol. heartache due to his physical defect. However, among the motley crowd of the demimonde, the artist felt like he belonged; Montmartre of that time, this refuge of assorted outcasts, tramps, freaks, artists and rakes, became a real home for the artist.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and the Moulin Rouge cabaret.
So, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, in fact, lived: he painted, was in an alcoholic haze and periodically visited nature somewhere on the estate. Lautrec's paintings, however, were not particularly popular until Joseph Oller decided to open the Moulin Rouge. Lautrec's real fame as an artist began with the poster of this cabaret.
Henri's style, with its laconicism, brightness and subtle psychologism, could not be more suitable for a graphic poster. After Lautrec’s posters, crowds of people flocked to the Moulin Rouge, and the artist himself was known to no less people than the cabaret house La Goulue. We can say that Moulin Rouge owes its success, not least to Lautrec. Henri was even given a separate table in this cabaret, where other visitors could not sit. 
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, syphilis and the last days.
Here he should settle down, get some vicious model wife and rest on his laurels, drawing pictures and posters. But, as often happens in this case, wine and an inferiority complex got in the way. Or maybe Lautrec was simply unlucky and that’s why he never met his “ “?
Be that as it may, the years of pouring alcohol down our throats were not in vain. In addition, trips to prostitutes, which the artist loved so much, also brought a gift. As always, suddenly, one of the prostitutes (Red Rose) infected Henri de Toulouse Lautrec with syphilis. And maybe the body could cope, people live with syphilis long years until their nose falls off, and some even sometimes recover. For reference, spontaneous recovery from syphilis occurs in 30% of cases. But this only applies to the acute form. The artist, however, was unlucky - years in an alcoholic haze and lack of sleep weakened his immunity.
Attempts by relatives to cure Henri's alcoholism failed. After treatment at the Toulouse clinic, Lautrec soon began drinking again. As they say, I’m sober and sad and sad, and I’m happy when I’m drunk. The ending is, of course, a little predictable. Gradually, Henri’s balls began to go behind the rollers due to syphilis and alcoholic psychosis. He became irritable and paranoid and began to hallucinate.
In the end, Lautrec suffered a stroke, after which the artist was paralyzed. Their last days he lived in the hospital as a half-crazed invalid. There, Henri suffered another, again, stroke. They say that last words the artist's poems were "The Old Fool", apparently addressed to his hated father. So it goes.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and women. Charlet, Valadon and the Red Rose of Lautrec.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec had no luck with women. Well, which of the aristocratic young ladies would want to spend their lives as a dwarf? Therefore, Henri had to be content with prostitutes and models. Henri's first woman was Marie Charlet, a 16-year-old model who was slipped to him by Luca (one of his friends). Yes, yes, gentlemen, in those days a 16-year-old whore did not surprise anyone. And not only in France, guys, don’t indulge yourself in illusions. The main thing is to continue to cry for lost spirituality.
Actually, after this, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec’s campaigns among prostitutes began. Prostitutes, however, adored Henri, because the artist was kind, gentle, witty, courteous and saw prostitutes not so much as prostitutes, but simply as women. There were also some timid romantic attempts to strike up relationships with women from his circle, but the end was a little predictable: “let’s remain friends.”
For real serious relationship the artist had with Suzanne Valadon. An attractive model who had affairs with half the artists in Paris. However, this romance lasted only a few years due to the nasty and quarrelsome nature of both individuals.
Another woman in the life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was Red Rose, the same prostitute who infected him with syphilis. Lautrec, however, out of the goodness of his heart, never blamed Red Rose for his illness. It is not known for certain what exactly connected Red Rose and Lautrec - just a regular client or, perhaps, a lover, a friend? A mystery shrouded in darkness. 
So it goes. I think Lautrec’s problems with women were caused not only by physical imperfection, and not even so much by it, but by an inferiority complex. In the end, he is not such a freak as he is described as. Well, yes, far from handsome, well, a dwarf. But he is witty and the life of the party. Are there a few freaks who have had success with women? Have you ever seen Diego Rivera? Yes, Lautrec is a handsome playboy compared to him.
Are there not many women who don’t pay too much attention to appearance? It is clear that not a single aristocrat would connect her life with a dwarf, but Toulouse Lautrec, with his fame, money and hanging tongue, could very well find himself a normal woman among the demimonde of Montmartre.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, film
Laughter through tears - this is how this film can be briefly described. An excellent biographical film that quite accurately describes the artist’s life and reflects the spirit of that era. I highly recommend it. I liked the movie
Lautrec, Lautrec, France, 1998 - full title. You can download it you know where.