Lot 2
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Profil du Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Stamped with the artist's monogram (Lugt 1338, lower left)
  • Ink wash on paper
  • 8 by 9 1/4 in.
  • 20.3 by 23.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1885.

Provenance

Countess Attems
Charles E. Slatkin Inc., Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above

Exhibited

Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Portraits and Figure Studies. The Early Years, 1965, titled "Sketch of a Bearded Man"

Literature

M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D.2.924, illustrated p. 477

Condition

The sheet is very delicate with minor bumps and losses along all the edges. The sheet has faded and the edges are much darker in color than the center of the work. There is an accretion on the sheet in the upper right quadrant, which may be the remnants of a wax seal. In fair condition.
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