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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Oscar Wilde et Romain Coolus - Programme pour Raphaël et Salomé
lithograph, on buff wove paper, 1896, from the theatre programme edition of unknown size, published by Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, Paris, with margins
Image: 12 x 1914 in. (305 x 489 mm.)
Sheet: 1258 x 1958 in. (321 x 499 mm.)
Provenance
Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem.
Acquired by the above circa 1900-1920 (according to the family); thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Delteil 195; Adhémar 186; Wittrock 146; Adriani 163
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In this state, Toulouse-Lautrec's double portrait print was used as a theatre programme for performances at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in February 1896. The programme was a double bill of Romain Coolus' play 'Raphaël' and Oscar Wilde's 'Salomé'. Toulouse-Lautrec's portraits are of the two authors. Lautrec here redrew a portrait of Wilde which he had made in London in May 1895, a few days before Wilde's final, disastrous trial that year. At the time that this programme was printed, Wilde was in Reading gaol. Coolus was a great friend of Lautrec.

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