About Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, a group which includes Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million.