Lot 6
  • 6

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Au Cirque: Un petit cob et un fox terrier
  • Stamped with the estate stamp (Lugt L.1338, lower right)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 12 3/4 in.
  • 50.2 by 32.4 cm
  • Executed in 1899.

Provenance

Collection Maurice Joyant
E.J. Van Wisseling Gallery, Amsterdam
G.H. Southam (acquired from the above on April 8, 1955)

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1931, no. 266

Literature

Théodore Duret, Lautrec, Paris, 1920, pp. 69-70
Gustave Coquiot, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ollendorf, 1921, p. 82
Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, vol. I, Paris, 1926, pp. 223-26
Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, vol. II, Paris, 1927, p. 237
Au Cirque II, Paris, 1932, no. 2
Pierre Mac Orlan, Lautrec, peintre de la lumière froide, Paris, 1934, pp. 156-63
Edouard Julien, Dessins de Toulouse-Lautrec, Monaco, 1942, p. 12
Walter Kern, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bern, 1948, p. 16
Marie Delaroche-Vernet-Henraux, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dessinateur, Paris, 1948, p. 9
M.G. Dortu, L'etrange Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1951, p. 6
Edouard Julien, Dessins de Lautrec, Paris, 1951, p. 11
Francis Jourdain and Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, p. 55
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, p. 8
Jacques Lassaigne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, London, 1953, p. 104
Gerstle Mack, Toulouse Lautrec, New York, 1953, p. 219
Hanspeter Landolt, Toulouse Lautrec, Basel, 1955, no. 29
Douglas Cooper, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, London, 1955, p. 44
Henri Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1958, pp. 314-20
Edouard Julien, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cologne and Milan, 1959, p. 53
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. VI, New York, 1971, no. D.4.545, illustrated p. 859

Condition

China ink on paper. Recto: Surface in generally good condition, aside from light and mat stain. Uneven color to the sheet. A few lighter spots possibly due to old glue on verso. The red estate stamp is faded. Verso: Similar uneven tones to the sheet, the drawing showing through as a ghost image.
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Catalogue Note

The present lot is a drawing from the series "Au Cirque."