On 24 November new, Google Doodle honors the 150th birthday \r
of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.\r
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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 – September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator. At the age of 13 Henri fractured his right thigh bone and, at 14, the left. The breaks did not heal properly due to an unknown genetic disorder. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was extremely short. Physically unable to participate in many activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in art. He became an important Post-Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and recorded in his works many details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec – along with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin – is among the most well-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period. \r
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