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Absences: Toulouse-Lautrec

Price:
3,000 yen (JPY)
Author(s):
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, with editorial supervision by Hiroo Yasui
Language(s):
Japanese and English
Size:
257 × 190 × 19 mm, 570 g
Pages:
200
Binding:
softcover
Release date:
20241123
ISBN:
978-4-86152-978-8 C0071

Works Toulouse-Lautrec treasured to the end of his life.

After the death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), the works he had set aside for his private keeping were taken in and saved from dispersal by his close friend and greatest champion, the art dealer Maurice Joyant. That collection—now at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo—includes not only examples of the lithographs and posters for which Toulouse-Lautrec is primarily known, but also rare prints, banquet menus, and other works not housed anywhere else.

From Histoires naturelles to Elles, Miss Loïe Fuller, and Yvette Guilbert, this volume covers 136 of Toulouse-Lautrec’s depictions of the Paris and the women that he loved so dearly throughout his life; sensitive and richly humorous, they reveal a fresh new aspect and appeal to this artist most famous for his work with posters. Also included are two works of flash fiction, “In Her Belly” and “Around Her Waist,” written by Erika Kobayashi in homage to Toulouse-Lautrec.

List of Commentaries
Histoires naturelles (Natural History) and Jules Renard
Maurice Joyant and the Posthumous Recognition of Toulouse-Lautrec
Aristide Bruant
Jane Avril
Yvette Guilbert
Aux Ambassadeurs, Chanteuse au café-concert (Café-Concert, Singer at Les Ambassadeurs)
Miss Loïe Fuller

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was born into the family of a count in the south of France and began studying art in Paris at the age of eight. A series of fractures he suffered at ages thirteen and fourteen caused his legs to stop growing, and the mocking he received for this disability led him to develop a rapport with the women of the Paris night scene, whom he lovingly portrayed at the Moulin Rouge and other places of pleasure. He produced a prolific body of paintings and lithographs prior to his death at the young age of thirty-six.

Hiroo Yasui, born in 1969, sereved as a curator at the Hiroshima Museum of Art and the Iwate Museum of Art before assuming his present post as senior curator of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo. He specializes in modern French art.

Erika Kobayashi is an author, manga artist, and artist born in 1978. She creates works that mix historical fact with fiction based on meticulous research and cues taken from time and the past, family and memory, vestiges and voices, and things unseen.

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