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ROBERT L. HERBERT, Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, with Francoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991. Pp. x + 450; 244 color pls., 108 black-and-white ills. $70.

RICHARD THOMSON, Toulouse-Lautrec, with Anne Roquebert, Claire Freches-Thory, and Daniele Devynck, New York and London, Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. 557; 180 color pls., 800 black-and-white ills. $65.

It can be tempting to think of Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec as flip sides of the same modernist coin: the former, a reclusive and meticulous technician, a builder of pictures; the latter, a profligate extrovert, a prodigious dauber. What they share …