Opening Lecture

"Wicked Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec Invents the Fin de Siècle"
59 minutes running time

S. Hollis Clayson, professor of art history at Northwestern University, opened the exhibition with a provocative lecture on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the lively milieu in which he cultivated his unforgettable style: Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. Dr. Clayson, a former Clark Fellow and the 2005 Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor for the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, has published extensively on diverse aspects of nineteenth-century French art, with a particular focus on Paris.