Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec  (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec, along with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gaguin, are among the most well-known painters of thePost-Impressionist period. In a 2005 auction at Christies auction house a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.