Kicking off the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in Milan. Here are some of the works on display

It kicks off on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, the major exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec. The Fleeting World with which the city of Milan, in the prestigious venue of Palazzo Reale, celebrates the genius of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, 1864 - Saint-André-du-Bois, 1901). More than two hundred works, including thirty-five paintings, arriving from the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi and major international museums, all twenty-two posters created by the French artist, along with studies and preparatory sketches, the only painted self-portrait (the 1880 Portrait in the Mirror ), the entire Elles series, an introspective look at the family, a historically contextualized itinerary, and much more: the exhibition is rich and allows for a decidedly broad overview of Toulouse-Lautrec’s art.

“The novelty introduced by Toulouse-Lautrec to the contemporary world,” we read in the exhibition presentation, “was the way of depicting artists and dancers through an affiche. He was the first to perceive the need to invent a new ’style’ for that new, typically urban artistic genre that is the poster. Showing himself susceptible to the influence of Japanese prints, Lautrec employed impetuous lines, bold compositional cuts, intense and flat, ringing colors that, applied evenly over extensive surfaces, made the poster visible even from a distance, easily recognizable at first glance and, above all, attractive to the potential consumer.”

Below we offer a selection of works that the public will be able to admire at the Royal Palace. The exhibition, curated by Danièle Devynck and Claudia Beltramo Ceppi Zevi, runs through Feb. 18, 2018. Open Mondays from 2:30 to 7:30 pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm, Thursdays and Saturdays from 9:30 am to 10:30 pm. Special openings on October 30, November 1, 7, 8, 24, 25, 26 and 31 December, and January 1 and 6. Full price 12 euros with audio guide, reduced 10 euros, with audio guide (for visitors aged 6 to 26, over 65, disabled, TCI members, FAI, “Monday Museums” ticket holders, AMAMI Card, Giunti Card, teachers, law enforcement, military). Special reduced rates with different types of discounts provided, as well as open and group tickets. All info at www.toulouselautrecmilano.it

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Self-Portrait in the Mirror (1880; oil on cardboard; Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Etude de nu. Femme assise sur un divan (1882; oil on canvas; Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan japonais (1892-1893; lithograph; Private collection)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aristide Bruant (1892; lithograph; Private Collection)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril (1899; lithograph; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, May Milton (1895; lithograph; Private collection)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Confetti (1894; lithograph; Private Collection)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Au lit (1892; oil on cardboard; Zurich, Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection)

Kicking off the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in Milan. Here are some of the works on display

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