Toulouse-Lautrec Was One Of The Creators Of Modern Celebrity Culture — And One Of Its First Victims

“His strikingly innovative designs turned artistes such as Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert into household names, heralding the birth of celebrity culture as we know it and making a star of their creator in the process.” (And how did he become a casualty of that culture? Absinthe.)

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