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...exhibition on Toulouse Lautrec at the Fogg Art Museum. The focal point of this exhibit, however, is the collection of six portraits, entitled Three Women: Early Portraits by Toulouse Lautrec, from his pre-Moulin Rouge days. Reflecting impressionist and even Renaissance influences, the portraits are among Toulouse Lautrec??s most conservative works, standing in sharp contrast to the decadent, brazen prints outside...
Works from five museums worldwide are combined with one portrait in the Fogg’s Wertheim collection to shed some light on an aspect of Toulouse Lautrec??s repertoire that until recently has been overlooked. Previously, his more conventional, intimate portraits were considered “student works, illustrations of popular song, or demonstrations of social issues in nineteenth-century Paris,” Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fogg, writes in the show’s essay. By contrast, this exhibition seeks to allow the viewer to see Toulouse...
...subject stares directly at the viewer from a seat in a room cluttered with colorful canvases and furniture, wearing a white blouse, with her hands folded in her lap. The juxtaposition of the two portraits gives a more comprehensive view of the model: whether surrounded by the disorder of Lautrec??s studio or on her own against a plain background, Gaudin is exposed to the viewer; she is not shielded by the vibrant make-up, ostentatious costuming or limber dance moves that characterize Toulouse Lautrec??s later prints...
...Portrait of Jeanne Wenz (La Femme au Noed Rose)” (1886) feature a self-assured, dignified subject. Whether momentarily seated at a table—ready to spring up and mill about—or formally seated for a traditional profile painting, Toulouse Lautrec??s barmaid subject sports a capricious smirk. Again, the artist transcends different settings and poses to humanize and endear to us a confident and dynamic subject...
...light of the success of films such as Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, flamboyance, debauchery and decadence have characterized our concept of late nineteenth-century Paris—an impression epitomized by Lautrec??s vibrant prints of that period. Examining Toulouse Lautrec??s lesser-known portraits, however, sheds new light on the essence of the individuals who constitute that world...