At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage

Early in 1899 Lautrec collapsed on the street and broke his collar-bone, blind drunk yet again. He was taken to the hospital for psychiatric and nervous disorders in Neuilly, and his strength was restored by detoxication treatment. Receiving commissions for a series of circus illustrations, Lautrec produced in his asylum room a series of astonishing works, executed with the utmost precision. He used only coloured pencils and crayons.