Toulouse-Lautrec!

Photo credit: Alfredo Flores

We went to the Toulouse-Lautrec VIP Exhibition Preview and Reception at the The Phillips Collection. Here, The Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski with French Ambassador to the U.S. Gérard Araud.

Photo credit: Alfredo Flores

Through his lithographs and posters, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured the heart of Parisian nightlife in dynamic cabaret and café-concert scenes, inspired by the city’s burgeoning entertainment district. A frequent visitor to lively hot spots, his record of local amusements fashioned a portrait of modern life. Here, Pernille Chanbliss, Sara Nieves-Grafals and Phillips Collection associate curator Renée Maurer.

Photo credit: Alfredo Flores

This special exhibition presents, for the first time in the U.S., one of the foremost collections of the artist’s prints and posters. Nearly 100 defining images of late-19th-century Montmartre celebrated daily life and the premier performers of la belle époque — Aristide Bruant, Marcelle Lender, Cha-U-Kao and others — cleverly caricatured through Toulouse-Lautrec’s perceptive skills of observation and transformation. Here, Forte Interiors & Gardenscapes' Kathleen Forte with novelist Mary Lee Malcolm.

Photo credit: Alfredo Flores

The Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit will be open through April 30. Here, TKTR Architects' Thomas Krähenbühl with DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities' José Alberto Uclés.

Here, Toulouse-Lautrec's Photographer Sescau.

Toulouse-Lautrec's The Simpson Chain.

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