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HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Femme.
Pencil on cream wove paper, 1894. 125x210 mm; 4⅞x8¼ inches. With the artist's monogram red ink stamp (Lugt 1573, lower right recto).
A preparatory sketch for the first of Lautrec's illustrations to accompany Tristan Bernard's article "Illustration du Salon du Chasseur de Chevelures," which was published in La Revue Blanche in June 1894.
Provenance: Dr. Georges Viau, Paris; Th. P. Halperin, United States; Herbert Schimmel, New York; private collection.
Published: A. Astre, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1925, page 110; Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1968, volume II, page 203; M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Paris, 1971, volume V, page 580, number 3.484.
