Lot 4
  • 4

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Amazone
  • Signed with the initials H.T.L and indistinctly inscribed (lower left); stamped with the artist's monogram (on the reverse)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 6 3/8 by 4 in.
  • 16 by 10 cm
  • Executed in 1881.

Provenance

MM. Desvouges, Paris 
M. Barthélémy (acquired from the above in 1911) 
Miss Elizabeth Hudson, New York 
Gift from the above

Literature

M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901 II, Paris, 1927, p. 182
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D.2.056, illustrated p. 343

Condition

Pen and ink on paper. Surface in generally good condition. Some light stain visible to the sheet. A few faint scattered fox marks on both sides of the sheet.
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