Hachette India

Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life

Julia Frey

Debauched aristocrat, cabaret painter or accidental dwarf: Julia Frey's definitive biography uses meticulous research to strip away the myth of Toulouse-Lautrec and reveal for the first time the tortured man beneath.

'The book deals seriously and sensitively with Lautrec's progress as an artist, his academic training and the audacious use he put it to. Equally, readers in search of the ooh-la-la side of Paris during the Belle Epoque won't feel short-changed. Almost everyone from Manet to the young Picasso crosses the stage. It is of course a tragic story, but a triumphant one also' George Melly, Mail on Sunday

Julia Frey

Julia Frey was educated in the United States Mexico and France and earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. An expert on nineteenth-century French literature and culture she also trained for years in Paris as an artist and printmaker. She has taught at Yale and the University of Colorado where she is Associate Professor of French. She divides her time between New York Boulder and Paris.