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Rafael Tovar y de Teresa opened the exhibition
The bohemian, living and colorful Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec arrives at the Palace of Fine Arts·
August 11, 2016The man who turned his artistic vision into a vivid portrait of the bohemian and sordid Paris, its nostalgic streets with colorful footlights, its cabaret nights, of passion and party, arrives at the Palace of Fine Arts with over 100 works showing the magnitude of its genius.
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec. Prints and posters (MoMA) exhibition was inaugurated on Wednesday night August 10th by the Secretary of Culture, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, in the Justino Fernandez and Paul Westheim halls where the public could admire posters, drawings, oil paintings, photographs, prints and lithographs of the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York.
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa stressed that The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec is one of the major exhibitions that have come to our country and will allow the public to get close to one of the most important collections in the world, which is in the Museum of Modern art in New York and comes for the first time to our country.
Reflecting on Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s work and the transgressions where he sought to portray the reality of the nightlife and the underworlds of his time, the Secretary of Culture defined this artist as the opposite pole of Marcel Proust, who at the same time expressed in literature the other reality of France, the aristocracy, building both parallel lines of two realities of the Belle Epoque.
It is important to mention that this exhibition takes place within the cultural program promoted by the Department of Culture, through which millions of people have appreciated the best of international art and works that are already part of the universal memory.
Rafael Tovar added that Toulouse-Lautrec was a friend of the great figures of his time, including Oscar Wilde and died at 37 in the castle of his aristocratic family, leaving a legacy both in painting, drawing, but especially in graphic work which is the chronicle of a Parisian life where allegories were brought together, the emotions and hypocrisies of those who were the major players in the the nightlife.
During the tour the public could know many of Toulouse-Lautrec’s works made for La Revue Blanche, the first Parisian artistic and literary magazine, which had among its collaborators authors such as Romain Coolus and Jules Renard and artist Tristan Bernard.
Among the world-famous works exhibited it highlights the lithographs Divan Japonais, 1893; La clownesse au Moulin rouge, 1897; the posters of Aristide Bruant, 1906 and Jane Avril, 1893.
Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish); Miguel Fernández Félix, director of the Palace of Fine Arts Museum, and Christian Rattameyer, associate curator in the department of drawings and prints and Rachel Kim, assistant coordinator Planning Exhibition of MoMA were present at the opening.
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec. Prints and posters MoMA will run until November 27th in the Justino Fernandez and Paul Westheim halls at the lobby of the Palace of Fine Arts. Visits from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 h.
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