Toulouse-Lautrec s vivid world comes alive at the Polk Museum of Art La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine (WP21), Color Lithograph, 1896. 24x32 inches, Courtesy of PAN Art Connections Inc.
LAKELAND, FLA
.-The Polk Museum of Art announced its newest and largest ever exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Belle Époque. Featuring more than 225 works, the exhibition offers visitors remarkable insider access to the world of Post-Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the greatest masters in the history of art.
This large-scale exhibition, which occupies all three of the Museums main gallery spaces, aims to transport audiences back to France and into the so-called Belle Époque, or Beautiful Age, of late 19th century Paris. With its hundreds of works displayed throughout the Museum, this extraordinary exhibition immerses visitors fully in the avant-garde culture of 1890s France through Toulouse-Lautrecs illustrations of the period. Proclaimed as