Toulouse-Lautrec Henri

He was influenced by Edgar Degas, and brilliantly adapted the design and technique of the Japanese print to his own purpose in colour lithography. His posters for the Moulin Rouge and other venues are classics of their kind. Oil diluted with petrol and used on board, giving a matt effect, was a favoured medium, enabling him to sketch swiftly and vividly in paint, but it is in drawings and lithographs that he is unique. He was interested neither in light nor form as such, but in the intensity of mood and expression that he conveyed.