Yvette Guilbert

Details

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Yvette Guilbert
signed with monogram 'TL' (upper right) and inscribed 'Petit monstre !! Mais vous avez fait une horreur !! Yvette Guilbert' (lower left); stamped 'EMILE MULLER IVRY PARIS REPRODUCTION INTERDITE' (on the reverse)
partially painted and glazed ceramic plaque
20¼ x 11 1/8 in. (51.5 x 28.3 cm.)
Executed in 1895

Provenance

Richard Armstrong, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

G. Coquiot, Lautrec, Paris, 1913, p. 131 (another plaque illustrated).
T. Duret, Lautrec, Paris, 1920, p. 113.
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1927, vol. II, pp. 44 and 208 (another plaque illustrated, p. 47).
Art Digest, July 1935, pp. 9 and 10 (another plaque illustrated).
G. Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec, New York, 1938, pp. 200 and 201.
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, no. 34 (another plaque illustrated).
D. Cooper, Toulouse-Lautrec, London, 1955, p. 30 (another plaque illustrated).
H. Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1958, p. 244.
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, New York, 1971, vol. III, p. 534, no. C.1 (another plaque illustrated, p. 535).

Lot Essay

Yvette Guilbert commissioned this plaque from Toulouse-Lautrec as the top for a small tea table. Toulouse-Lautrec sent the design to the potter Emile Muller in Ivry for him to produce a ceramic tile. The artist hand-colored each plaque himself before it was fired and no two examples are identical. When Toulouse-Lautrec submitted the design to Yvette Guilbert, she added the humourous inscription which appears in the lower left corner.

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