HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)


Tête de femme de maison stamped with the artist's monogram (lower left)blue chalk on paper14.4 x 22.8cm (5 11/16 x 9in).Executed circa 1895
|ProvenanceCharles Vignier Collection, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 May 1931, lot 125.Maurice Exsteens Collection (acquired at the above sale).M. Knoedler & Co., New York.Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 265 (acquired from the above in 1956).Thence by descent to the present owner.ExhibitedBasel, Kunsthalle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 10 May - 29 June 1947, no. 119.Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, July - August 1947, no. 95 (later travelled to Brussels).Ingelheim am Rhein, C. H. Boehringer Sohn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Monotypien, Lithographien, Radierungen, Plakate, 4 May - 3 June 1968, no. 21.London, Hayward Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, 10 October 1991 - 19 January 1992, no. 134.Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 60.LiteratureM. Delaroche-Vernet Henraux, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dessinateur, Paris, 1948 (illustrated pl. 13; titled 'Tête de femme de trois-quart').P. Huisman & M. G. Dortu, Lautrec by Lautrec, London, 1964 (illustrated in sanguine ink p. 124). M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Vol. VI, New York, 1971, no. D4.043 (illustrated p. 693).