With paintings, literature and new media, the exhibition finds its way, in close contact with this person who unwittingly helped usher in the 20th century.

Although often reduced to the Culture of Montmartre, the work of Toulouse-Lautrec goes beyond this cliche. Toulouse-Lautrec wonderfully represented the cheerfulness of the night in Paris and its pleasures, but above all, the artist had a profound aesthetic ambition, that of translating the reality of modern society into its many faces.

Just as his favorite authors, from Jules Renard to the contributors of the Revue blanche, Lautrec succeeded in reconciling the subjective fragmentation of the image and the desire to push modern life towards new myths.

GRAND PALAIS: 3, General Eisenhower Avenue - 75008 Paris. Square Jean Perrin entrance

This exhibition was co-organised by the Orsay and de l'Orangerie Museums, and the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais with the collaboration of the city of Albi and the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum. Exhibition designed with the exceptional contribution of the National Library of France, owner of the entire lithographed work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Curators: Stéphane Guégan, scientific adviser to the President of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums; Danièle Devynck, director of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum (Albi).