MATTHIAS ARNOLD
Best-known for his depictions of young women performing the can-can, Tolouse-Lautrec was a shrewd observer of contemporary Frech life. Focuising on his prints, this generously illustrated book offers a thematic re-consideration of the artist´s oeuvre. It highlights Tolouse-Lautrec`s keenly perceptive gaze as he explored a variety of settings-circuses, brothels, cafés, and dancehalls-and subjects of both genders and all classes in his work. A radical in his own radical time, he emerges as a consummate bohemian artist who depicted his contemporaries´ appetite for visual and sensual pleasure.