Feb 25, 2014 - Sale 2339

Sale 2339 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) YVETTE GUILBERT. 1894.
7 1/4x7 1/2 inches, 18 1/2x19 cm.
Condition B+ / A-: foxing in image. Matted and framed.
A flyer promoting the sale of the album Yvette Guilbert, which contained 16 illustrations of the performer combined with text. Only 100 copies of the album were printed. The flyer bears the same image as the cover of the album itself, but also has additional advertising text around the outside. The image depicts "Yvette's discarded gloves [that] seem to be gliding down step by step, a ghostly, alien trickle of black ready to enter into a liaison with the grotesque eccentricity of their wearer which was to last for over 30 years" (Adriani p. 118). Adriani 73, Delteil 79, Wittrock 69 (all variations).