O passeio deste domingo (24/02/2013), chuvoso e frio: apesar de ser um museu dedicado à arte americana -- ou estadounidense, como gostam de dizer os companheiros -- a exposição era excepcional: Toulouse, o breve (e seu alter ego Lautrec, gigante), seus amigos (entre eles Degas), e muito mais, além de uma outra artista visitando e fotografando...
New Britain Museum of American Art
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56 Lexington Street |
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New Britain, CT 06052-1412 |
Toulouse-Lautrec & His World
January 12–May 12, 2013
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Divan Japonais, color lithograph, 1893, 808 x 608 mm, Herakleidon Museum, Athens Greece.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Eldorado: Aristide Bruant, color lithograph, 1892, 1380 x 960 mm, Herakleidon Museum, Athens Greece.
For the first time out of Europe, Toulouse-Lautrec & His World begins its U.S. tour here before moving on to Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA.
On view from January 12–May
12, 2013 in the McKernan Gallery, this traveling exhibition is on loan
from the Herakleidon Museum, in Athens, Greece and is from the
collection of Paul and Belinda Firos, the Connecticut collectors who
also brought us M.C. Escher: Impossible Reality in 2010.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lived in Paris during the
Belle Époque
(Beautiful Era) frequenting cabarets and cafés where he captured its
famous singers, actors, his friends and the working class in his highly
celebrated posters, prints, caricatures, sketches, and paintings.
Greatly influenced by the French Impressionist movement, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec is a post-impressionist of the mid-late 1800's. Due to
his excessive lifestyle Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died from
complications of alcoholism and syphilis in 1901 at age 36.
This exhibition highlights approximately 150 of
Toulouse-Lautrec’s rare works on paper including sketches, and some of
his iconic posters like
Jane Avril, Divan Japonais, and
La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine.
The included posters are incredibly rare and fragile because as
temporary advertisements for a particular show they were not done on
quality paper. Some of the works are accompanied by appropriate passages
from French literature, photographs, and other objects, in order to
help the viewer better understand the atmosphere of that time.
Toulouse-Lautrec & His World is from the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, www.herakleidon.com
Uma turista não acidental, instruída e experta. Estivemos em Albi, mas infelizmene o Museu Toulouse-Lautrec, no castelo da família, estava fechado para reformas.
Quem está mais imóvel: o guarda ou eu?
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Hartford, 24 Fevereiro 2013
