Sunday, February 8, 2015

TOULOUSE LAUTREC

He used to paint indoor drawings, specially with artificial light. He did not like to paint landscape scenes. He was asked to produce posters for some well known cabarets. He enjoyed very much this kind of jobs and was as famous for them, that  he was able to sell some of his drawings during his life.
He painted some drawings of the dancer Jane Avril, one of his best friends, the singer Yvette Guilbert and another dancer called Louise Weber.
In London he met and painted a famous portrait of Oscar Wilde

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