Toulouse-Lautrec frequented the Moulin Rouge and other cabarets  of the
    Montmartre district of Paris, where his wit attracted a large group of artists and
    intellectuals, including Irish author Oscar Wilde, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh,
    and French performer Yvette Guilbert. He also frequented the theater, the circus,
    and Parisian brothels. Toulouse-Lautrec preserved his impressions of these places
    and their celebrities in portraits and sketches of striking originality and power.
    Outstanding examples are La Goulou Entering the Moulin Rouge (1892, Musée
    Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi), Jane Avril Entering the Moulin Rouge (1892, Courtauld    Gallery, London), and Au salon de la rue des Moulins 1894, Musée
    Toulouse-Lautrec). His alcoholic dissipation, however, eventually brought on a
    paralytic stroke, to which he succumbed at Malromé, one of his family's estates.

            Toulouse-Lautrec, many of whose works are in the museum that bears
    his name in Albi, was a prolific creator. His oeuvre includes great numbers of
    paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, and posters, as well as illustrations
    for various contemporary newspapers. He incorporated into his own highly
    individual method elements of the styles of various contemporary artists,
     especially French painters Edgar Degas and Paul Gauguin. Japanese art, then
    coming into vogue in Paris, influenced his use of sharp delineation, asymmetric
    composition, oblique angles, and flat areas of color. His work inspired van
    Gogh, Georges Seurat, and Georges Rouault.