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Lautrec had been recently engaged with the Great Captain Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova in the kingdom of Naples, whither her too late repentant lover had repaired.
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Lautrec Next up was the village of
Lautrec, located in the heart of Tarn.
Lautrec immortalized the performances and personas of the city's entertainers in colorful lithographs, elevating the advertising poster to the status of high art.
An abusive childhood led Jane Avril to an asylum but her life reached far beyond that to the Moulin Rouge, no less, where she was immortalised in the paintings of Toulouse
Lautrec.
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters, the latest addition to a healthy crop of literature on
Lautrec, and the first exhibition at the Museum of Modem Art devoted to him in three decades, makes it easy to see why.
In the shadow of the cathedral tower, you can lunch at Le Clos Sainte Cecile, a former school opened by
Lautrec's uncle but now the perfect place for a spot of al fresco dining in the sun-dappled courtyard.
After the two have a painting duel off,
Lautrec suggests they go to the Moulin Rouge but Matthew says he has no money and is underdressed.
His cousin Tapie de Celeyran was a doctor and remembered in later years how Toulouse-Lautrec would follow him on Saturdays to the Hopital St Louis, where
Lautrec would watch the surgeons at work.
That is not all: the Courtauld Gallery has added a number of related pictures from its permanent collection; among them
Lautrec's sketch of Jane Avril, the famous dancer, entering the Moulin Rouge (c.1892), which is matched with a study of her leaving the Moulin Rouge from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut.
Our collection consists of the giant Elephant Garlic (five cloves), the heavy-cropping Solent Wight (two bulbs) and the all-rounder French
Lautrec (two bulbs).