Lot 153
  • 153

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Artilleur à cheval, vue de dos
  • Signed with the monogram and inscribed Minège (lower left); inscribed Don de H de Toulouse Lautrec à Messieur Rajol fait au château de Céleyran 1881 (on the reverse)
  • Oil on panel
  • 9 1/3 by 5 1/2 in.
  • 23.5 by 14 cm

Provenance

Mr. Rajol
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 17, 1930, no. 96
M. M. J. D. et Cie
Sale: Amsterdam, June 13, 1961
Kunsthandel Huyock & Scherjon, Amsterdam, no. 1095
Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, May 30, 2006, lot 106

 

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, 1931, no. 16, p. 4

Literature

M.G. Dortu, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec et son oeuvre, New York, 1971, vol. II, pp. 62-63, no. P138
Die Weltkunst, Munich, June 1, 1961, p. 36 

Condition

Good condition. Board is stable. Under UV light, 10-15 nailhead-size spots of inpainting in the blue pigment in the sky as well as a few scattered nailhead-size spots in the ground. One tiny stroke of inpainting in the back of the horse. Otherwise, fine.
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