Emile Bernard - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [1885]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Emile Bernard [1885], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

This is a portrait of the painter Emile Bernard. At the time it was done Bernard was still only a teenager, and was a student with Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901) and Van Gogh at the Atelier Cormon in Paris. Like Gauguin, another of his friends, Bernard went on to develop a radical style of painting in his Breton scenes, for which he is now best known. Bernard later recalled that it took Toulouse-Lautrec thirty-three sittings to complete this picture, ten of which were devoted to working on the background.

[Oil on canvas, 540 x 445 mm]