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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Lender et Lavallière, dans Le Fils de L’Arétin (Lender and Lavallière, in The Aretine's Son) (D. 164, A. 133, W. 109)

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000
$7,620
Lot Details
Lithograph, on beige wove paper, with presumably full margins.
1895
I. 18 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (46.5 x 36.5 cm)
S. 22 7/8 x 17 3/4 in. (58.1 x 45.1 cm)
Signed twice in pencil, Wittrock's first state (of two), from the edition of 20, before the removal of the figure of Eva Lavallière and the reduction of the image, a strong impression of this rare print, published by E. Kleinmann, Paris, including a xeroxed letter dated March 30, 1992 from Wolfgang Wittrock confirming the two signatures are by Toulouse-Lautrec, framed.
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Catalogue Essay

Le Fils de l’Arétin is a drama in four acts by Henri de Bornier which opened at the Comédie-Française in 1895. Eva Lavallière (Eugénie Marie Pascaline Fénoglio) was an actress and particularly renowned for her voice with a very wide range that she used in the operetta register. She never appreciated the caricatures that Lautrec made of her. '…he represented Marcelle Lender, his current infatuation, rather than Le Bargy and Mounet-Sully who had been critically acclaimed in the leading roles.' Richard Thomson Observations on the Themes of Toulouse-Lautrec’s Prints, in Wittrock, vol. 1, p. 29

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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