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The exhibition opening in this spring to mark the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) will showcase a rich selection from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts’ Department of Prints and Drawings. In the last ten years of his life the French artist made lithographs, which will be exhibited alongside These Ladies in the Refectory, a painting in the museum’s ownership. A special feature of the exhibition is that such a large segment of the Budapest Lautrec collection – some one hundred and seventy works – has thus far only been displayed on one occasion in the last fifty years at the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1964. In addition to Lautrec’s works and contemporaneous photographs, the Paris of the late-19th-century “belle époque” will be evoked by such rarities as motion pictures and sound recordings from around 1900, in which the characters known from Lautrec’s art come alive. 00Exhibition: Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary (30.04- 24.08.2014).