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HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Feuille d'études avec le Champion Cycliste Zimmerman.
Pen and ink, color pencil and pencil on wove paper, circa 1893-94. 359x229 mm; 14 1/8x9 inches.
Provenance: Madame Thadée Natanson, Paris; thence to her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 27, 1953, lot 95, with the ink stamp (Lugt 2449a, recto; Lugt notes that the stamp was used on the occasion of Natanson's auction, and only on the works of Lautrec; private collection, New York.
Published: Natanson, Un Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, P. Cailler, Geneva, 1952, page 181, plate V (detail, illustrated); Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Paris, 1971, number 3.934.
The American athlete Arthur Augustus Zimmerman (1869-1936) was one of the world's greatest cycling sprint riders and winner of the first world championship in Paris in 1893. He lived and raced in France from May 1893 to July 1895. He was a favorite subject of Toulouse-Lautrec's and was featured in the artist's numerous sketches and the lithograph Zimmerman et sa Machine (see Wittrock 111), aside from numerous bicycle advertisements of the time.
