Death Lautrec treated differently. His enemies took the opportunity to once again attacked him. Jules Rock wrote in The Courier France: "Fortunately for mankind, the world's few artists similar to Lautrec. It is absurd to deny his talent, but it was a bad talent, which has been harmful and distressing impact. In the Echo de Paris "again, as in 1899, made Levavasseur:" Name Lautrec, no doubt, will take its place among the artists of our time, but it is peculiar, unpleasant talent cripples, who everyone around him saw the light of the ugly and dirty, exaggerated of life, drawing attention to the vices and perversions ... "However, all these statements is largely consistent with the view of Count Alphonse. Zhuayan are out to protect the works of his friend, devoted himself entirely to this cause. He received numerous letters from Count Alphonse, in which it unambiguously expressed its attitude to the creation of her son: "Due to the fact that my son died, I did not intend to change their minds about him and praise to the heavens that during his life I did not understand and considered bold and daring, but pupils' sketches "(October 22, 1901).
"I think that they (his work) for the most part careless ... Just because the artist is no longer alive - even if it's my son - I can not admire his hatchet job, which only testifies to his fiery temperament "(Feb. 4, 1902).
Moreover, when after the exhibition of the works of Toulouse Lautrec in 1907 a committee was formed to establish a monument to the artist, Count Alphonse wrote the chairman of this committee Arsène Alexandre, that "his son did not have the talent" and that he, Count Alphonse, will be "hard oppose this project. " Having learned in 1912 that Gustave Kokio writes book on Lautrec, Count Alphonse threatened to bring him to a duel and "punish". "With great difficulty, - wrote Kokio - could prevent him come tearing me to Paris for the chaise. Count Alphonse died in December 1912 in Albi. "You no longer believed in his talent than I do, and you were right" - he wrote Joye-Jan.
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