Name: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Brand: Three Portraits, from: Portraits d'acteurs et d'actrices
Price: 1200.00 GBP
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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Three Portraits, from: Portraits d'acteurs et d'actrices
including:
Jeanne Granier, Louise Balthy & Marie-Louise Marsy
lithographs printed in dark grey
1898
on laid China paper
unsigned (as issued)
from the first series of approximately four hundred impressions, printed before 1906
with wide margins
pale scattered foxmarks and pale mount-staining, and other defects
generally in good condition
Images 28,5 x 23,2 cm. (11¹⁄₄ x 9 in.) (and similar)
Sheets 38,6 x 31 cm. (15¹⁄₄ x 12¹⁄₄ in.) (and similar)

Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, lot 1030, 15 June 1968, lot 1030 (with ten others).
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré, New York, 1969, nos. 154, 157, 158 (other impressions ill.).
J. Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec - His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints, London, 1965, nos. 171, 172, 178 (other impressions ill.).
W. Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec The Complete Prints, London, 1985, nos. 250, 256, 260, pp. 576-577, 588-589, 596-597 (other impressions ill.).
G. Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec - The Complete Graphic Works, London, 1998, nos. 264, 267, 268, pp. 326-327, 330-331 (other impression ill.).

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Treize Lithographies: Portraits d’acteurs & d’actrices was initially conceived as a book with lithographic portraits accompanied by biographical sketches of Parisian actresses and actors. The lithographs were completed in 1898, but the exact date of publication of the first edition is unclear. A second edition of forty copies was published in 1913. In the end the publication was issued without any text. The album features portraits of many of the great names of the Parisian stage, including Sarah Bernhardt and May Belfort, whom Lautrec had immortalized in posters. The three actresses in our sheets are: Jeanne Garnier (1852-1939), operetta star; Louise Balthy (1867-1925), dancer and showgirl; Marie-Louise Marsy (1866-1942), theatre actress.