Toulouse-Lautrec [antikvár]

WHY I LOVE LAUTREC by FEDERICO FELLINI I have always thought of Lautrec as my brother and friend. Perhaps because Lautrec, before the Lumiere brothers invented moving pictures, had devised intuitively the « frames » and the schematic approach of the cinematographer, but also probably because he was always attracted to social outcasts, to the destitute and the scorned, those whom the « respectable » people caE depraved. It is hard to say precisely who inspired you throughout your career. But this I do know : I have never looked with indifference at a painting, a poster, or a lithograph by Lautrec, and thoughts of him have seldom been far from my Gala at the Moulin Rouge, 1894. Lithograph, I1V» X 18Vs in. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. mind. Here was an aristocrat who disliked high society, who believed that the finest and purest flowers sprouted in wasteland and rubbish heaps. He loved men and women, true women, those hardened and wounded by Ufe. He despised painted dolls since, more than any other vice, he detested hypocrisy and artifice. He was simple and true, magnificent despite his physical ugliness. For this reason Lautrec lives on, thanks to his pictures, in the heart of each of us.