Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (Phoenix Giants)

Debauched aristocrat, cabaret painter, accidental dwarf: Julia Freys definitive, superbly researched biography strips away the myth of Toulouse-Lautrec to reveal the tortured man beneath. A remarkable and compelling portrait, featuring 135 photos and illustrations. Julia Frey earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. An expert on 19th-century French literature and culture, she has taught at Yale, Brown, Sarah Lawrence, and the University of Colorado; she currently divides her time among New York, Boulder, and Paris. A Pen Award-winning writer, she is also the author of Writers and Puppets in Nineteenth-Century France. 600 pp 6 x 9 50 color & 85 b/w photos & illustrations