Belle Époque Paris is a world of lights and shadows, of splendor and fragility.
In the cafés, theatres, and cabarets of Montmartre, the energy of an era unfolds—an era that believes in progress, yet knows the intoxication of excess and the allure of disillusionment.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is the sharpest and most relentless eye of this season: with his quick, incisive lines and vibrant, striking colors, he captures the soul of a time when art merges with everyday life.
Dancers, singers, actors, and night-time figures become the protagonists of an imaginary world that has forever marked modernity.
This volume takes the visitor on a journey through paintings, drawings, posters, and lithographs, bringing back the vitality and contradictions of a city that never slept.
An unrepeatable testimony, where elegance intertwines with irony, and melancholy with lightness: the Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec—eternal and universal.