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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [French Post-Impressionist Painter and Printmaker, 1864-1901], descendant of the counts of Toulouse, was born on November 24, 1864 in the French town of Albi. As a child, Henri was weak and often sick. In 1887 he established himself as an artist in Paris.

For his subjects he took the night-life of Montmartre: circus, theatre, cabaret as well as brothels and bars. With a sparing use of materials, he managed to capture with great accuracy the artists and other people who frequented these establishments. Lautrec achieved greatest fame with his lithographs, particularly his posters for song, dance and cabaret performances. Inspired by Japanese prints, he used strong contours and sharply contrasting colours in these posters. At the age of thirty-six, he died from a serious disease brought on by heavy drinking.

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Georges Seurat, 1859-91, French neoimpressionist painter. He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called divisionism, was a systematic refinement of the broken color of the impressionists. Seurat’s famous paintings are his Baignade (Tate Gall., London), shown in the Salon des Independants in 1884, and Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte (Art Inst., Chicago), completed two years later. He died of pneumonia at 31. Seurat is considered as one of the most intellectual artists of his time and was a great influence in restoring harmonious and deliberate design and a thorough understanding of color combination to painting at a time when sketching from nature had become the mode.

Alfred Sisley often painted landscapes of the Sienne, Loire, and the Thames Rivers and focused on light in the clouds and reflections, He was very interested in capturing the movement of foliage, the shimmer of water, and the texture of cloud-filled skies than in recording atmospheric changes in light and the subsequent results.

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