MORE THAN 30 BOLD AND SUBTLE POSTERS, PRINTS, AND PAINTINGS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BOHEMIAN NIGHTLIFE OF LATE 19th-CENTURY PARIS ARE PRESENTED IN "CAFE AND CABARET: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC'S PARIS" AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (MFA), BOSTON, THE FRENCH ARISTOCRAT HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901), ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS OF THE POST-IMPRESSIONIST PERIOD, IS KNOWN FOR HIS STRIKING IMAGES OF PERFORMERS IN THE CENTERS OF PARISIAN ENTERTAINMENT IN THE 1880s AND 1890s, SPECIFICALLY THE CAFE CONCERTS AND CABARET NIGHTCLUBS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MONTMARTE. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THIS LIVELY SECTION OF THE CITY, WHERE WOMEN DANCED THE CANCAN AT PLACES SUCH AS THE MOULIN ROUGHE, AND CHRONICLED IN HIS CANVASES AND LITHOGRAPHS THE EXTRAVAGANT NIGHTLIFE OF PARISIAN DANCE HALLS AND NIGHTCLUBS. "CAFE AND CABARET" WILL BE ON VIEW FROM 21.NOVEMBER.2009 THROUGH 8.AUGUST.2010, IN THE MARY STAMAS GALLERY. IN ADDITION TO WORKS BY TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, "CAFE AND CABARET" HIGHLIGHTS EVOCATIVE IMAGES OF PARISIAN NIGHTLIFE BY SEVERAL OTHER CELEBRATED ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD, INCLUDING PABLO PICASSO'S PAINTING 'STUFFED SHIRTS', THEOPHILE-ALEXANDRE STEINLEN'S POSTER 'COLLECTION OF THE CHAT NOIR', AND PIERRE BONNARD'S LITHOGRAPH 'AT THE THEATRE'.
THE MFA'S DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HAS ALSO ORGANIZED TWO ADDITIONAL EXHIBITION AT THE MFA, BOTH ON VIEW FROM 21.NOVEMBER.2009 THROUGH 3.JULY.2010: 'ALBRECHT DURER: VIRTUOSO PRINTMAKER', IN THE CLEMENTINE HAAS MICHEL BROWN GALLERY, WHICH SHOWCASES WORKS BY THE GREAT GERMAN PRINTMAKER, AND 'HARRY CALLAHAN: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER', IN THE HERB RITTS GALLERY, WHICH INCLUDED NUDES, SCENES OF STREET LIFE AND ELEGANT VISIONS OF NATURE BY THE CELEBRATED 20th CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHER.
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