Editing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (section)

==Art==
[[File:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Moulin Rouge - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[At the Moulin Rouge]]'', 1892, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. Self-portrait in the crowd (background center).]]
[[File:Lautrec moulin rouge, la goulue (poster) 1891.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Moulin Rouge: La Goulue]]'', poster (1891)]]
In a career of less than 20 years, Toulouse-Lautrec created:
* 737 paintings on canvas
* 275 watercolours
* 363 prints and posters
* 5,084 drawings
* some ceramic and stained-glass work
* an unknown (80+)<ref>[[Gabriele Mandel|Sugana, G. M.]] (1987)[1969]. [https://archive.org/details/completepainting0000toul/ ''The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec''].  Penguin Books. p. 84. {{OCLC|1148609392}}.</ref> number of lost works<ref name="Angier" />
Toulouse-Lautrec's debt to the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]], particularly the more figurative painters like [[Édouard Manet|Manet]] and [[Edgar Degas|Degas]], is apparent, that within his works, one can draw parallels to the detached barmaid at ''[[A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]]'' by Manet and the behind-the-scenes ballet dancers of Degas. Toulouse-Lautrec's style was also influenced by the [[Ukiyo-e]] genre of Japanese woodblock prints, which became [[Japonisme|popular in the Parisian art world]].<ref>[[Klaus Berger (art historian)|Berger, Klaus]]. (1992) ''Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse''. Translated by David Britt. Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], p. 199. {{ISBN|9780521373210}}.</ref>

Toulouse-Lautrec excelled at depicting people in their working environments, with the colour and movement of the gaudy nightlife present but the glamour stripped away. He was a master at painting crowd scenes where each figure was highly individualised. At the time they were painted, the individual figures in his larger paintings could be identified by silhouette ''alone'', and the names of many of these characters have been recorded.{{Citation needed|date = November 2015}} His treatment of his subject matter, whether as portraits, in scenes of Parisian nightlife, or as intimate studies, has been described as alternately "sympathetic" and "dispassionate".{{Citation needed|date = November 2015}}

Toulouse-Lautrec's skilled depiction of people relied on his highly [[Line art|linear]] approach emphasising [[Contour line|contour]]s. He often applied paint in long, thin brushstrokes leaving much of the board visible. Many of his works may be best described as "drawings in coloured paint."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lefevrefineart.com/henri-toulouse-lautrec|title=Henri Toulouse-Lautrec|website=Lefevre Fine Art|access-date=10 May 2019|archive-date=10 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510202617/https://www.lefevrefineart.com/henri-toulouse-lautrec|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 20 August 2018, Toulouse-Lautrec was the featured artist on the BBC television programme ''[[Fake or Fortune?]]''. Researchers attempted to discover whether he had created two newly discovered sketchbooks.<ref name="BBC 2018">{{cite web |title=Fake or Fortune?, Series 7, Toulouse-Lautrec |website=BBC |date=19 August 2018 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgtg9h |access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref>