Yvette Guilbert

Details

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

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner in 1983.

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, vol. III, New York, 1971, p. 534, no. C.1 (another plaque illustrated p. 535).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Yvette Guilbert (1867-1944) commissioned this plaque from Lautrec as the top for a small tea table. Lautrec sent the design to the potter Emile Muller in Ivry for him to produce a ceramic tile. Lautrec hand-coloured each plaque himself before it was fired and no two examples are identical. When he submitted the design to Yvette Guilbert she added the humourous inscription which appears in the lower left corner.

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