Lot 2
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Femme debout and Deux femmes debout: A double-sided drawing
  • Stamped with the artist's monogram HTL (verso, lower left)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 10 5/8 by 6 3/4 in.
  • 27 by 17.1 cm
  • Executed circa 1881.

Provenance

Edwin Bachmann, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goldblatt
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

M.G. Dortu, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre de Toulouse-Lautrec, vol. V, New York, 1971, nos. 2.285 & 2.286, illustrated p. 377

Condition

Double-sided pencil drawing on paper, hinged by two pieces of white cloth tape at top edge. In generally very good condition; light staining, three pindots of foxing and faint tape staining along top edge on both recto and verso.
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