This note from LeRoy Neiman is one of many touching on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Neiman opens the writing with a remark repeated elsewhere in the collection, concerning his discovery of the artist—that is, meandering through the book department of…
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief history of the artist’s final portrait of his mother, Lydia Hoelscher. The work was a sketch, dated 1980. Although the record is a singular account, it exhibits rhetorical overlap with other notes the…