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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Description
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Les deux soeurs légendaires
- Signed with the artist's monogram (upper right)
- Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper
- 25 1/4 by 19 3/4 in.
- 64.1 by 50.2 cm
Provenance
Alexandre Natanson, Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 1929, lot 72)
M. Van Riel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Gerstenberg Collection, Berlin
Durand-Matthiesen Gallery, London
Mr. & Mrs. Josef Rosensaft, New York (and sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 17, 1976, lot 41)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, De Watteau à Cezanne, 1951, no. 204
Geneva, Galerie Motte, Les Maîtres de l'Impressionisme, 1955, no. 43
Vevey, Musée Jenisch, De Monet à Chagall, 1958, no. 28, illustrated pl. XV
Paris, Petit Palais, De Gericault à Matisse, 1959, no. 187
Literature
Achille Astre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1925, p. 100
Maurice Joyant, Lautrec I, Paris, 1926, p. 203
Maurice Joyant, Lautrec II, Paris, 1927, p. 220
Gerstle Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec, New York, 1938, p. 294
Hanspeter Landolt, Toulouse-Lautrec, New York, 1955, no. 22, illustrated in color pl. 22
Thérèse Charpentier, La Revue des Arts, 1960, illustrated p. 91
P. Huisman & M. G. Dortu, Lautrec by Lautrec, 1964, illustrated p. 263
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol.🦄 III, New York, 1971, no. A.234, illusཧtrated p. 515
Condition
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