TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Taschen Editions children Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

very little is known about Francis Bacon's life

as well as from his worst self-immolating excesses later in life

Sarah Jayne Booth

Scully provides personal insights into his life and the important sources of inspiration for his career

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Taschen Editions children Lucian FreudIn our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864 1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the city's Belle poque nightlife and put the northern neighborhood of Montmartre on the global map of creative hedonist hotspots. The son of old French nobility, Toulouse Lautrec seems to have been drawn early on to visions of a demimonde, centering his