Lot #2001: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC - Portrait d'un gentilhomme - Mixed media on paper

 

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901).
Title: "Portrait d'un gentilhomme".
Medium: Mixed media on paper.
Date: Composed c1894.
Dimensions: Image size: 8 11/16 x 5 5/8 in. (221 x 143 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed with the monogram, lower left. Cream wove lightweight paper. Good to very good condition; the composition consists of ink, watercolor, wash, & chalk; minor dimpling; the edges exhibit some light browning; scattered foxing verso (not visible recto); uneven left margin. Comment(s): Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. He was a painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. [30090-1-12000]