CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO SEE IT LARGERO.K., so you didn’t get to Paris this year. Never mind! Neither did I, but Margaret and I went over to the San Diego Museum of Art today and treated ourselves to an exhibit of 100 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. All but a couple of the posters and paintings belong to the museum, but they are kept in the vaults most of the time... apparently because posters are subject to fast fading. You have until the first of the year before they go back to the vaults; so if you live in San Diego, go over and see the exhibit.

As we left the museum, a guitarist was entertaining at the restaurant by the sculpture garden; and because I had been put into a fine Toulouse-Lautrec frame of mind, I took a couple of shots of him and went right home and posterized him with Photoshop.Ah... Watch out! I'm posterizing everything...
Babylone d'Allemagne por Victor JozeLa Revue BlancheLa Gitane was the last work Toulouse-Loutrec did before he died at age 37 in 1901.La Chaine SimpsonTROUPE de MLLE EGLANTINE"For heavens sake, don't make me look so hideously ugly," Yvette Guibert reportedly said to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec when she saw the sketch of her.Aristide Bruant, a cafe performer, was a favorite subject.Toulouse-Loutrec worked mostly with crayon and charcoal to make lithographs and posters, but he did a few oil paintings, mainly of prostitutes.