Sur les yeux

Details

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Sur les yeux
signed 'TLautrec' (lower centre); inscribed 'SUR LES YEUX Paroles de S. de la Brande Musique de Haudi créée par Melle Bade' (on the right)
pen and India ink and blue crayon on paper
20½ x 15 in. (52 x 38 cm.)
Executed circa 1895

Provenance

Désiré Dihau, Paris.
Jean Cailac, Paris.
Acquired by the present owner in the early 1990s.

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Lot Essay

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Toulouse-Lautrec.

This drawing is a design for the title page of the music score Sur les Yeux. The lyrics were written by S. de la Brande and the music was composed by Haudi, a pseudonym for Désiré Dihau. For other illustrations by Toulouse-Lautrec for Dihau's song sheets, see W. Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec, The Complete Prints, London, 1985, vol. I, nos. 124-127.

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