Lot 418
  • 418

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Monsieur G.T. De C
  • stamped with artist's monogram (lower right)
  • coloured crayon on paper
  • 30.9 by 20.9cm., 12 1/8 by 8 1/4 in.

Provenance

Alexandre Natanson, Paris (sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16th May 1929, lot 22)
M. Van Riel (purchased at the above sale)
Galerie Durand-Matthiesen, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland (sale: Sotheby’s, London, 29th June 1999, lot 239)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1951, no. 56

Literature

Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, Paris, 1927, vol. II, p. 225
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, New York, 1971, no. D.4.224, illustrated n.p.

Condition

Executed on a folded sheet of cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the mount along the right edge. The sheet is time stained, with faint discolouration along the borders relating to previous mounting (not visible when framed) with some fine diagonal creases across upper corners and lower right corner, with a small tear on the unworked half of the sheet. There are some very faint scattered spots of foxing and some minor handling marks to the lower right corner, the latter not visible when framed. This work is in overall good condition.
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