Montmartre, Paris. Bourgeoise society has been amazed in the past months by the paintings and sketches of  artist  Herni-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec or simply known as Toulouse-Lautrec in the “underground” art world. His paintings have caused a big contoversy among critics and parisienne society by his “raw” depictions of the nightlife of the Montmartre distric. A distric of Paris famous for it`s bohemian lifestyle and cozy cobble stone streets filled with a delicate aroma of coffee, wine, romance, love, passion and lustful spirits  that attract writers, artists, intellectuals, exotic dancers, ballerinas, poets, prostitutes, philosophers, and chefs from all over the world...

Originally born in an aristocrat family from Albi, Tarn, in the Midi-Pyrènèes region of France. Tolouse-Lautrec started his career at an early age and moved to Paris a few years ago to set up his studio/office in  Rue Caulaincourt next to the Goupil printshop where he can be seen during the day designing numerous publicity posters for establishments like restaurants, cabarets, dancehalls, circus bars,  gourmet stores, bistros and cafes.

His genetic condition and past accidents hasn`t  stoped  him  from pursuing his art career and now lives completely for his art!  His post-impressionist style has been ifluenced by  the classical  Japanese  woodprints  that  have recently become popular among the Paris Bourgoise art circle but affirms one of his greatest infulence has been and old skilfull Montmartre master who often painted ballerinas  and cabaret  singers  by  the  name  of  Edgar Degas who belongs to the Vielle École Impressionist des Beaux-Arts...

During the evenings he can be seen in different restaurants, bistros, bars, dancehalls, cabarets and brothels observing the “poetic nightlife" filled with dozens of beautiful women and exotic dancers while enjoying the "sweet melodies" created by skilled musicans slowly sipping his favorite digestive the “Tremblement de terre” or earthquake which he claims is his own creation...

• 1/3 cognac
• 1/3 absinthe
• Eye slash of mandarin juice

Fiercely independent but with a great ability to understand everything around him...

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He came as an outsider to Montmartre like everybody else but now is regarded as one of the locals. For the past couple of months he has been living on a brothel on rue de Casbah but  it`s  been said he was recently admitted  into a hospital for the mentally ill in Marlomè. 

Art brokers have sold one of his latest painting for $22.4 million to an unknown private colector...

"He did not overturn reality to discover truth, where there was nothing. He contented himself with looking. He did not see, as many do, what we seem to be, but what we are. Then, with a sureness of hand and a boldness at once sensitive and firm, he revealed us to ourselves....fixed forever by the artist's pitiless pencil" Journal de Paris