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How Six Amazing Toulouse-Lautrec Lithography Prints and a Painting will Inspiring You

Regia Marinho
3 min readSep 9, 2020

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A great French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa (24 November 1864–9 September 1901), known as just Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Wikipedia.

Toulouse-Lautrec. Photo by Maurice Guibert, 1892

Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes to Inspire You.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

I have always been a pencil.

I paint things as they are. I don’t comment.

In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.

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Regia Marinho
Regia Marinho

Written by Regia Marinho

I publish tech, art, food, AI, AR, architecture, interior design, fashion, and photography articles. Ideas to inspire the world through art. @regiaart

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