Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 30,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Mélodies de Désiré Dihau.

Complete set of 14 lithographs, 1895. 384x283 mm; 15 1/8x11 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

Edition of only 20 in the first state, before text and before the several subsequent editions. Each print numbered in pencil and stamped with the artist's orange-red monogram (Lugt 1338, lower margin). Published by Joubert, Paris. Superb impressions of these extremely scarce lithographs.

We have not found another complete set in the first state at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 129-142; Adhémar 151-159 and 161-165; Adriani 145-158.