Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Lithograph printed in colours, 1897, a good impression, with the artist's red monogram stamp, numbered 97 in pencil, from the edition of 100, on wove paper, printed by Auguste Clot, published by Vollard in L'album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard, Paris, framed

Acquired by Lord & Lady Attenborough in 1986

The full sheet printed to the edges (a deckle edge at each side), the yellow slightly more pale in the upper right background and the artist's red monogram stamp slightly faded, in good condition, the yellow slightly paler in the upper right background?, some minor foxing in the unprinted area, further minor discoloration in the sky, the upper right tip of sheet loose but backed with hinging verso, alongside a further inconspicuous 25mm vertical tear, the upper left tip of sheet with a hairline flattened diagonal crease, a band of uneven mount-staining along edges of sheet, minor backboard-staining verso, the sheet brittle to touch, framed. (Pencil inscriptions lower right recto).
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