Final Days for Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits

Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), Eldorado, Aristide Bruant dans son Cabaret, 1892. Color lithograph, 1380 x 960 mm. © Copyright Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece.

There are only a few days left to view the Bruce Museum's popular exhibition In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum.

The artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901) is famed for his images, created more than a century ago, of entertainers in the cabarets, dance halls, theaters and brothels of Paris.

See this extensive showcase of the artist’s portraits of the dancers, singers and other performers who became the icons of the Parisian nightlife in the late 19th century. Featuring 100 drawings, prints, and posters (approximately half of the Herakleidon Museum’s extensive collection of Toulouse-Lautrec works on paper), the exhibition explores the relationship between portraiture, caricature, and rise of the cult of celebrity in Belle Époque Paris.

In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum will be on view through January 7, 2018. The Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. For more information, call the Bruce Museum at 203-869-0376 or visit brucemuseum.org.

Curators and Sponsors

In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum, a single source exhibition provided by PAN Art Connections Inc. www.pan-art-connections.com, is organized by the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. The works are on loan from the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece (www.herakleidon-art.gr). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, featuring a scholarly essay by the curator Mia Laufer, PhD candidate (Washington University in Saint Louis) and former Zvi Grunberg Resident Fellow at the Bruce Museum (2015-2016), acknowledgments by Peter C. Sutton, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director of the Bruce Museum, and a foreword by Paul Firos, founder of the Herakleidon Museum.

In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum is sponsored by The Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund, Gabelli Funds, the Florence Gould Foundation, a Committee of Honor, and Connecticut Office of the Arts.