Nan Curtis
Nan Curtis
bone bones broke healed legs short suffered work
His work is very recognizable, as is Toulouse-Lautrec himself. He suffered from a bone disease, and he broke his legs when he was a child. The bones never healed correctly, so he was of very short stature.
burlesque dance deal great halls painted spent time
Like Degas did a lot of dancers, Toulouse-Lautrec spent a great deal of time in dance halls and burlesque halls and painted the dancers, the drinkers and those who were out away from their wives.
It's enormous. I have the catalog, and it's hefty.
art lines work
His art work is very, very identifiable because it's got a sense of looseness about it. The lines are loose, very free-wheeling.