Henri de toulouse-lautrec

Despite his physical handicap, Henry Toulouse Lautrec — fascinated by life in the cafés, cabarets, dance halls, and bordellos around Montmartre — became one of the great portrayers of the human figure. Possessed of the astonishing ability to understand the conditions of the socially ostracized milieu, he was able to look behind the facade of a crumbling bourgeois civilization.