Lautrec's works paint another picture.(Scene) From: The Boston Herald | Date: April 26, 2002| Author: Silver, Joanne | COPYRIGHT 2002 Boston Herald. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For more than a century, the Moulin Rouge in Paris' Montmartre has stood as an icon of bohemia, a place of artificial lights and shadowy characters caught in a frenzied dance.

The man who did more than anyone else to construct this image, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), gained his reputation largely from the portrait he created of the district and its denizens. In posters of the famed nightspot and performers such as Jane Avril, the artist gave bourgeois society a...