ID 1306133
Lot 16 | HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Estimate value
£ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
La femme tatouée
signed with the artist's monogram (lower right)
peinture à l’essence on board
24 ¾ x 19 in. (62.8 x 48.3 cm.)
Painted in 1894
Provenance
Georges Bernheim, Paris.
Jos & Lucie Hessel, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the grandparents of the present owner in 1922, and thence by descent.
Literature
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, vol. I, Paris, 1926, pp. 151 & 286 (illustrated p. 151).
P.M. Orlan, Lautrec, Le peintre, Paris, 1934, p. 113.
E. Schaub-Koch, Psychanalyse d'un peintre moderne: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Paris, 1935, p. 191 (titled ‘La tatouée’).
A. Podestà, ‘Gli Impressionisti’, in Emporium, vol. CVIII, nos. 613-614, July-August 1948, p. 27 (illustrated).
R. Pallucchini, Gli impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1948, no. 76, p. 64 (illustrated).
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, no. 37, p. 7 (illustrated).
H. Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1958, p. 222.
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. III, New York, 1971, no. P.551, p. 338 (illustrated p. 339).
R. Thomson, Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 1992, p. 419 (illustrated).
M. Hahnloser-Ingold & V. Sauterel eds., The Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser Collection: An Eye for Art Shared with Artists, Lausanne, 2011, p. 272 (illustrated p. 275).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, exposition de peintures et de lithographies et d'affiches, January 1896.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung von Werken aus dem Besitz von Mitgliedern der Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, September – October 1927, no. 246, p. 26 (titled ‘Bei der Toilette’).
Paris, Galerie des Beaux Arts, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, 1938, no. 116, p. 53 (illustrated; titled ‘La toilette’).
Basel, Kunsthalle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, May – June 1947, no. 187, p. 25.
Venice, Biennale di Venezia, XXIV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, May – September 1948, no. 76, p. 218 (illustrated pl. 9).
Bern, Kunsthalle, Die Maler der Revue blanche: Toulouse-Lautrec und die Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Denis, Roussel, Ranson, Sérusier, Maillol, March – April 1951, no. 252.
London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, May – June 1951, no. 21, p. 10 (illustrated pl. 21).
Bern, Kunsthalle, Europäische Kunst aus Berner Privatbesitz, July – September 1953, no. 126 (illustrated).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, October – December 1961, no. 147, p. 28 (titled ‘Die Tätowierte’); this exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, December 1961 – February 1962.
Albi, Palais de la Berbie, Centenaire de Toulouse-Lautrec, June – September 1964, no. 51, p. 62; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Petit Palais, October – December 1964.
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Toulouse-Lautrec und die Photographie, August – December 2015, pp. 242, 243 & 246 (illustrated pp. 242 & 247).
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Aufbruch Flora: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Arthur und Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, February - June 2017, no. 63, pp. 81 & 85 (illustrated p. 81).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Picasso, Lautrec, October 2017 - January 2018, no. 82, p. 53 (illustrated pp. 183 & 230).
Vienna, Albertina, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler: The Hahnloser Collection, February - May 2020, no. 25, pp. 148, 150 & 282 (illustrated p. 149).
Artist: | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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