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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

Lot 63
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492556
Lot 63 | HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 000 – 9 000 000
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Femme assise de profil vers la gauche
signed and dated 'HT Lautrec 90' (upper left)
oil and peinture à l'essence on board
28 ¾ x 16 in. (73 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1890




Provenance

Maurice Guilbert, Paris.
Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin (acquired from the above, 23 February 1912).
Margarethe Gerstenberg-Scharf (by descent from the above, 1936 and by whom placed on deposit at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, until 1950).
Matthiesen Gallery, London (on consignment from the above, 1950).
Albert D. and Mary Lasker, New York (4 January 1951, until at least 1964).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd.), London.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier Family.



Literature

M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1926, vol. I, p. 269 (illustrated, p. 101; with incorrect dimensions).
E. Schaub-Koch, Psychanalyse d'un peintre moderne: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Paris, 1935, pp. 178-186 (titled Femme assise, En meublé).
H.J. Wechsler, French Impressionists and their Circle, New York, 1953 (illustrated in color, pl. 26; titled Portrait of a Lady in Red).
F. Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes, supplément, The Hague, 1956, p. 398, no. 2785.
W. Brockway, ed., The Albert D. Lasker Collection: Renoir to Matisse, New York, 1957, p. 29 (illustrated in color, pl. 15; titled Woman in Red).
A.M. Frankfurter, ed., "Modern Art and Modern Taste: The Lasker Collection" in Art News, vol. 56, no. 7, Part II, November 1957, p. 37 (illustrated in color, p. 40; titled Woman in Red).
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, New York, 1971, vol. II, p. 194, no. P.364 (illustrated, p. 195).
G. Caproni and G.M. Sugana, L'opera completa di Toulouse-Lautrec, Milan, 1977, p. 103, no. 255 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
G.B. Murray, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878-1891, New York, 1991, pp. 204, 207, 252 and 267-268.
Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 1992, p. 180 (illustrated, fig. c; dated circa 1890-1891).
T. Gaehtgens and J. Scharf, eds., "Die Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg in Berlin" in A. Pophanken and F. Billetter, eds., Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, vol. III, p. 183.
J. Scharf, H. Strzoda and J. Dahlmanns, eds., Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, Sammlungsverzeichnis, Ostfildern, 2012, vol. II, p. 217, no. 1347 (illustrated).



Exhibited

(probably) Paris, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, VIIe Salon des Indépendants, March-April 1891, p. 23, no. 388 (titled En meublé).
(probably) Paris, Le Barc de Boutteville, Peintres Impressionnistes et Symbolistes: 1e Exposition, December 1891, no. 73 (titled En meublé).
(probably) Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, Neuvième exposition annuelle des XX, February 1892, no. 5 (titled En meublé).
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Foreningen Fransk Kunst, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, January-February 1937, no. 6.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Sixty-Nine Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, March 1953, no. 66 (illustrated; titled Portrait of Woman in Red; with incorrect medium).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March-May 1956, p. 45, no. 15 (titled Lady in Red).
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Toulouse-Lautrec, February-March 1964, no. 23 (illustrated; titled Lady in Red).
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