Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse- Lautrec- Monfa( 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), commonly known as just Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
Toulouse- Lautrec is among the best- known painters of the Post- Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.
In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house," La Blanchisseuse", his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$ 22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
Gustave Pellet
Gustave Pellet( 1859–1919) was a French publisher of art.
He is best known for publishing prints of erotic artworks by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and Louis Legrand.
Henry Pearlman
Henry Pearlman( 1895–1974) was a Brooklyn- born, self- made businessman who discovered in midlife a passion for impressionist and post-impressionist art.
Over three postwar decades, he assembled a" deeply personal" collection centered on thirty- three works by Paul Cézanne and more than forty by Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and a dozen other European modernists.
His eye for quality was" rarely matched in a private collection."
Robert Guinan
Robert Guinan( March 14, 1934 – April 3, 2016) was an American painter based in Chicago.
The subject matter of his work includes but has not been limited to street performers, musicians, barflies, historical scenes, landscapes and building structures.
Lauded in Europe but widely unknown in his native Chicago, Guinan's work reflects a documentary quality that has been compared to" that of the Parisian demi-mondes as chronicled and interpreted by Toulouse- Lautrec".
Toulouse- Lautrec was in fact an influence on Guinan; as a young man he saw the film" Moulin Rouge" and felt like Toulouse- Lautrec, the 19th- century French painter known for his portraits of night life in Paris.
Octavian Utalea
Octavian Utalea( 11 February 1868, Maieru, Beszterce- Naszód, Kingdom of Hungary- present- day Bistriţa- Năsăud County, Romania –?) became mayor of the municipality of Cluj, Romania on 1 May 1923.
He served as mayor until 14 March 1926.
Among the accomplishments of his term in office were the opening of an Army Club(" Cerc Militar") in the Reduta Palace and the founding of a School of Fine Arts( today's School of Plastic Arts) in the Central Park.
He took classes at the law faculty of Cluj's Hungarian University, graduating in 1906.
He followed a military career and was very active in the national liberation movement of Transylvania's Romanians, being present at the Great National Assembly of 1 December 1918.
Aside from being mayor of Cluj, he held other administrative functions, for instance being prefect of Cluj County for a short time.
He was a member of ASTRA and also of the Virtus Romana Rediviva lecture society.
Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Henri -Gabriel Ibels( 30 November 1867 Paris – February 1936 Paris), was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter and author.
He studied at the Académie Julian with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard and was a member of Les Nabis from its 1889 founding.
Other members were Gauguin, Utrillo, Félix Vallotton and Émile Bernard.
Ibels took part in Les Nabis ’ exhibitions at Le Barc de Boutteville gallery.
With Vuillard and Maurice Denis he soon caught the public eye and earned the nickname ‘le Nabis journaliste ’.
Ibels ’ images were powerful and heavily graphic, in keeping with the movement that was a generous admixture of fine art, graphic design and advertising, as seen in the lithographs and posters for theater, cabaret, and book illustration.
Ibels drew his inspiration from life on the street, cafés, the circus and boxing ring, as did Adolphe Willette, Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and Théophile- Alexandre Steinlen.
His graphic style owed much to the art of Honoré Daumier, Japanese woodcuts, Paul Gauguin and the Pont- Aven School.
Ibels collaborated with Toulouse- Lautrec and became involved in avant- garde theater.
He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants for the first time in 1891.
Maurice Guibert
Maurice Guibert( 1856 – 1913) was a French photographer best known today as a friend of Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec.
He was an agent for the champagne company Moët and Chandon and a member of the Société française de photographie.
Little else is known of him other than his self- portraits and photos of Toulouse- Lautrec that often led to collaborations such as in the painting" À La Mie":
Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec
Marie Pierre" Mapie" de Toulouse- Lautrec( 1901 – 1972) was a French journalist and food writer, born Marie Pierre Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in Verrières- le- Buisson, scion of the Vilmorin seed company.
Her horticulturalist father was Joseph Marie Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin( 1872- 1917), and her mother was the former Bertha Marie" Mélanie" de Gaufridy de Dortan( 1876- 1937).
The writer Louise de Vilmorin( 1902 – 1969) was her younger sister, while one of her younger brothers, Roger, was the result of an affair between her mother and Alfonso XIII of Spain.
Her other siblings were Henri, Olivier, and André.
Cha-U-Kao
Cha -U- Kao was a French entertainer who performed at the Moulin Rouge and the Nouveau Cirque in the 1890s.
Her stage name was also the name of a boisterous popular dance, similar to the can-can, which came from the French words" chahut", meaning" noise" and" chaos".
She was depicted in a series of paintings by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec.
Cha- U- Kao soon became one of his favorite models.
The artist was fascinated by this woman who dared to choose the classic male profession of clowning and was not afraid to openly declare that she was a lesbian.
Little is known about her life, including her real name, though she was a gymnast before she worked as a Parisian female clown or" clownesse."
During her time as a gymnast, Maurice Guilbert photographed her, capturing her younger self that contrasted with Toulouse- Lautrec's later depictions.
Her clown performances included a" distinctive black- and- yellow costume with her hair piled up on her head" Toulouse- Lautrec sometimes sketched Cha -u- Kao with her partner, and these sketches would be included in his portfolio" Elles."
It is believed that her partner was Gabrielle the Dancer, another performer and model for Toulouse- Lautrec.
In 1979, art historian Naomi Maurer identified Cha -U- Kao in the artist's work as part of an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.
( The exhibit ran in the fall of that year.)
Amélie Diéterle
Amélie Diéterle was a French actress and opera singer.
She was one of the popular actresses of the Belle Époque until the beginning of the Années Folles.
Amélie Diéterle inspired the poets Léon Dierx and Stéphane Mallarmé and the painters Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and Alfred Philippe Roll.

Question: Did Mapie De Toulouse-Lautrec and Octavian Utalea share the same nationality?
Answer: no