Anna Held dans 'Toutes ces Dames au Theatre'

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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Anna Held dans 'Toutes ces Dames au Theatre'
lithograph, on wove paper, 1894, signed and dedicated 'a Stern/ TLautrec' in pencil, presumably a printer's proof before the third edition of approximately 25 impressions, printed by Ancourt, Paris, with wide margins, staining at the lower left sheet corner on the reverse, showing through faintly in the lower margin, occasional pinpoint foxmarks mainly in the margins, otherwise in very good condition, framed
Image: 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (322 x 218 mm.)
Sheet: 21 ¼ x 15 1/8 in. (540 x 385 mm.)

Provenance

Henri Stern, Paris (according to the dedication); presumably a gift from the artist.
Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem.
Acquired by the above circa 1900-1920 (according to the family); thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

Delteil 100; Adhémar 112; Wittrock 88; Adriani 103

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Lot Essay

Anna Held (1865-1918) was a celebrated café concert performer at the Eldorado and La Scala music halls in Paris, before becoming a sensation in London and New York. Her repertoire was typical of the risque nature of music hall, delivered with coquettish charm and redolent with innuendo and double entendre. The refrain of one of her popular songs ran: `I'm fond of games and romps, you see; I wish you'd come and play with me; For I have such a nice little way with me; I wish you'd come and play with me'. In 1895, shortly after Lautec made this lithograph, she moved to New York where she married Florenz Ziegfeld, the founder of the theatrical revue the Ziegfeld Follies (M. O. Hoffman, Anna Held. A Biography, Portland State University, 1981, p. 19).
This impression is dedicated by Lautrec to the printer, Henri Stern who worked for the firm of Ancourt.
Of the edition of 25, Wittrock cites six impressions in public collections.

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