Despite his physical handicap, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) became one of the great portrayers of the human figure. Fascinated by life in the cafés, cabarets, dance halls, and bordellos around Montmartre — "the theater of life" — Toulouse-Lautrec captured the belle epoque"s dizzy pursuit of fleeting pleasure like no one before or since in the paintings and posters featured in this Spanish-language study of the artist"s work..