HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, (1864-1901)

Pourquoi pas?

Pourquoi pas?
pen and ink on paper
16.8 x 10.7cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/16in).
Executed in 1893

Provenance
M. & Mme. Maurice Bunau-Varilla Collection, France; their estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 July 1947, lot 9.
M. Raykis Collection (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 26 November 1952, lot 1148.
Dr. R. Mohreuwitz Collection, Zurich.
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 30 April & 1 May 1969, lot 280.
Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 932.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 57.

Literature
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D3.455 (illustrated p. 573).