HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

Property of the ROSE ART MUSEUM, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY* Waltham, Massachusetts

Details

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

Vieillard à Céleyran

stamped with monogram bottom left TL--oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (54.9 x 46 cm.)

Painted in 1882

Provenance

M.M. d'Anselme
Sam Salz, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, New York (gift to the Rose Art Museum 1979)

Literature

M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901 peintre I, New York, 1926, p. 256
A. Astre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1938, p. 68
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, New York, 1971,
vol. II, p. 68, no. p.151 (illustrated)
G. M. Sugana, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris,
1986, p. 105, no. 207 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, "Toulouse-Lautrec", 1902
Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, "Toulouse-Lautrec, Retrospective" June-July, 1914, no. 165
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Toulouse-Lautrec", no. 1 (illustrated p. 6), 1956
New York, Wildenstein Gallery, "Toulouse-Lautrec", Feb.-Mar., 1964,
no. 5 (illustrated)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum, summer loan Exhibition 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968
Clinton, Hamilton College, Emerson Art Gallery, "Art from the Ivory Tower: Selections from College and University Collections", Apr.-May, 1983

Further details

* This lot may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Important Notice at the front of this catalogue.

Lot Essay

Perhaps the most precocious of the Post-Impressionists, Toulouse-Lautrec decided to devote himself to painting at the age of seventeen, in 1881, when Vieillard à Céleyran was completed. His first sitters were workers in his family's vineyards at Céleyran and it is only natural that those with the time to spare were older men. Although he studied briefly with the equestrian painter René Princeteau in 1881 and 1882 he was largely self-taught at this time.