Le moderne jugement de Pâris

Details

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Le moderne jugement de Pâris
with the artist's red monogram (Lugt 1338; lower left)
pen and India ink and wash on paper
10 x 13¾ in. (26 x 35 cm.)
Executed in 1894

Provenance

Alexandre Natanson, Paris; his sale, Paris, 16 May 1929, lot 45.
Marquise de Paris, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Jacques Dubourg.
Max Harari.
Stiébel.
Mrs Topalian, Paris.
Acquired by the brother-in-law of the present owner in the 1970s, and thence by descent.

Literature

M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D.3.501 (illustrated p. 585).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present drawing and the following lot are part of a series of preparatory drawings for the fourteen illustrations that Toulouse-Lautrec executed to accompany Tristan Bernard's article Illustration du Salon du Chasseur de Chevelures, which was published in La Revue Blanche, no. 32, in 1894. This work was also lithographed for a menu card (Delteil 69; Adhémar 75), which was published in a very small edition and is today extremely rare.
The first owner of both drawings was Mr Alexandre Natanson. He and his brothers Thadée and Louis Alfred were Toulouse-Lautrec's patrons and in 1889 they founded the renowned avant-guarde magazine La Revue Blanche.

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