?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HENRI DE TOULUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) LA DEPECHE. 1895. 22x165/8 inches. Cassen Fils, Toulouse. Condition B+: restored loss at bottom left corner; minor repaired tears in top margin; time stained in margins; darkened overall. La Depeche de Toulouse was the most important newspaper in Lautrec's native region of France. The editor of the paper, Arthur Huc, was an art lover who had already commissioned Lautrec to design a print (La Pendu in 1891). This time he returned to Lautrec to help advertise Le Tocsin, a novel that was being serialized in his paper. The first state of the print exists in blue and gray, without any text (see Swann auction #1945 lot 110). The image was then transferred onto a new stone and reduced on the right and bottom edges to make room for the lettering, and the colors were changed. In the mysterious nocturnal scene Lautrec demonstrates his outstanding lithographic abilities with crachis and projected ink droplets. Delteil 357 II, Adhemar 147 II, Adriani 140 II, Wittrock P 19 B.
