Lot 485
  • 485

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • L'Amazone
  • stamped with the artist's monogram (lower right)
  • brush and ink on paper
  • 35 by 21.6cm., 13¾ by 8½in.

Provenance

Alexandre Natanson (sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 15th, 1929, lot 39)
Estate of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (née Braman), Grasso, Essex, Connecticut
Sale: Skinner, Boston, 28th January, 2010, lot 569
Private Collection, France

Literature

Tristan Bernard, 'Chasseur de chevelures', Revue Blanche, no. 32, June 1894, illustrated
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, New York, 1971, vol. V, no. D.3.503, illustrated p. 585

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, taped only along the edges onto a sheet of white wove paper which is in turn taped along the upper edge. The sheet is slightly time stained and there are some humidity stains to the lower to edge and along the upper left corner. There is a small patch of discolouration towards the lower right corner. There are three 1cm minor repaired tears along the upper edge and a few small spots of foxing towards the upper band. Otherwise good condition.
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