But Lautrec chose his society with an eye on posterity, and posterity has returned the favor. His life was romanticized in John Huston’s 1952 film Moulin Rouge, with José Ferrer as Lautrec, and laid ...

PARIS — Of the major shows now open in Paris — Leonardo at the Louvre, El Greco at the Grand Palais, Degas at the Musée D’Orsay — an exhibition of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is the most sprawling and ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was tiny — just 4 feet, 11 inches, with a perpetually runny nose and brittle bones likely due to a hereditary condition brought on by his aristocratic family’s generational ...

The scene Lautrec stepped into was in the working-class district known as Montmartre, notorious for its thieves and brothels as well as its hangouts for avant-garde artists and literary anarchists. In ...