Toulouse Lautrec in Balboa Park

The dance hall posters and fin-du-siecle artwork of Parisian painter Toulouse Lautrec is currently on  display at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park. Although T-L died in 1901 (at age 36, another victim of syphilis), his work evokes all the gaiety of La Belle Epoque -- the time period in which Paradise Hotel takes place -- and is worth seeing to gain insight into the world in which the Pinglets and Paillardins (and especially Antoinette) lived. Click on the link above for museum information.