\b0 Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Maufa was born to a family of the old Provenτal n
obility in\b \cf4 \ATXht64 \ATXul1024 Albi\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 in 1864. As a result of damage to his bones at the age of twelve, he became a cripple, with the body of an adult on the legs of a child. Already fond of drawing, he devoted himself to p
ainting from then on and found in \b \ATXul1024 \cf4 \ATXht293 Degas\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , after the latter had moved away from impressionism, the master who was capable of bringing out his talent. Often using warm colors shot through with green and
with blue shadows, he took to depicting the world of the pleasures of the night and spent his time in cabarets, cafes, and brothels, as well as at theaters, circuses, and racecourses. At the end of the century, greatly admired but ill and an alcoholic, h
e went to live with his mother in Gironde, where he died in 1901.
