A major exhibition dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec in 2024 at Palazzo Roverella

In 2024 a major exhibition dedicated to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, 1864 - Saint-André-du-Bois, 1901) , among the most representative artists of late 19th-century Paris, will arrive at Rovigo ’s Palazzo Roverella. The exhibition, curated by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Francesco Parisi and Fanny Girard (director of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi), with the collaboration of Nicholas Zmelty (Posters and Engravings section), will in fact be open to the public from February 23 to June 30, 2024; it will be promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo with the Municipality of Rovigo and the Accademia dei Concordi, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo.

Going beyond the approach that often reduces Toulouse-Lautrec to the sole activity of poster creator, the exhibition intends to dwell on his activity as a painter, with paintings and pastels from important American and European as well as French museums, in relation to theParisian environment, placing the artist in comparison with realists, impressionists, and symbolists with whom he shared experiences and moments of daily life in the French capital.

However, Toulouse-Lautrec’s activity in the field of posters will not be neglected. In addition to the famous Affiches, his paintings and preparatory drawings will be exhibited, placing them side by side in a dialectical relationship with the works of the many artists active at the same time in the same environments.

In all, more than two hundred works will be on display in the exhibition, sixty of them by the artist; this careful reconstruction of Toulouse-Lautrec’s entire activity through his works is intended to evoke the vibrancy of the Parisian art scene, overcoming the reductive concept of Belle Époque.

In order to better describe the Parisian artistic environment in which Toulouse-Lautrec operated, the exhibition will be enriched by several focuses: Paris 1885-1900; Le Chat Noir; Toulouse-Lautrec and his artist friends; The renewal of graphic art; and a previously unpublished section to studies devoted to the French art movement “Les Arts Incohérents” (curated by Johan Naldi), forerunners of many of the techniques adopted by 20th-century avant-gardes such as Dadaism. All of the group’s works that had been given up for lost for more than a century were rediscovered in 2018, and some of them bear, on the verso, the label of one of their exhibitions accompanied by the catalog published by the editions of the famous Chat Noir venue.

The catalog, in addition to essays by the curators, will feature studies by Nicholas Zmelty on Graphics, by Johan Naldi on Les Arts Incohérents, by Mario Finazzi on Spanish artists in Paris between the 19th and 20th centuries, and by Bertrand du Vignaud, great-grandson of Toulouse-Lautrec, on the relationship between Marcel Proust and the artist.

For info: www.palazzoroverella.com

Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcelle Lender en buste, detail (1895; color lithograph, 51.2 x 39.6 cm; Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts)

A major exhibition dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec in 2024 at Palazzo Roverella

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