Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Yvette Guilbert

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Yvette Guilbert
marked with monogram (upper right), inscribed 'Petit monstre!! Mais vous avez fait une horreur!! Yvette Guilbert'(lower left) and 'EMILE MULLER IVRY PARIS' (on the reverse)
partially glazed ceramic
20¼ x 11 1/8in. (51.4 x 28.3cm.)
Executed in 1895

Literature

G. Coquiot, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1913, p. 131 (another plaque from this edition illustrated)
T. Duret, Lautrec, Paris, 1920, p. 113
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1927, vol. II, pp. 44 and 208 (another plaque from this edition illustrated, p. 47)
Art Digest, July 1935, pp. 9 and 10 (another plaque from this edition illustrated)
G. Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec, New York, 1938, pp. 200 and 201
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, no. 34 (another plaque from this edition illustrated p. 7)
D. Cooper, Toulouse-Lautrec, London, 1955, p. 30 (another plaque from this edition 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, no. C.1 (another plaque from this edition illustrated p. 535)

Lot Essay

Yvette Guilbert commissioned this plaque from Toulouse-Lautrec, who sent the design to the potter Emile Muller at Ivry. The artist coloured 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 inscription which appears at lower left. Approximately ten examples were made.

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