HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)


Pourquoi pas? pen and ink on paper16.8 x 10.7cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/16in).Executed in 1893
|ProvenanceM. & Mme. Maurice Bunau-Varilla Collection, France; their estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 July 1947, lot 9.M. Raykis Collection (acquired at the above sale).Anon. sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 26 November 1952, lot 1148.Dr. R. Mohreuwitz Collection, Zurich.Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 30 April & 1 May 1969, lot 280.Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 932.Thence by descent to the present owner.ExhibitedOxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 57.LiteratureM. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D3.455 (illustrated p. 573).