HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, (1864-1901)
La goulue de dos (Louise Weber)
La goulue de dos (Louise Weber)
stamped with the artist's monogram (lower left); inscribed 'la Goulue' (verso)
pencil on paper
16.3 x 9.8cm (6 7/16 x 3 7/8in).
Executed circa 1892
Provenance
Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran Collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern.
Galerie Michel, Paris.
Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 401 (acquired from the above in 1958).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Ingelheim am Rhein, C. H. Boehringer Sohn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Monotypien, Lithographien, Radierungen, Plakate, 4 May - 3 June 1968, no. 77.
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 56.
Literature
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D3.311 (illustrated p. 547).
Known by the sobriquet 'La Goulue' (Greedy Guts), Louise Webster was a celebrated dancer of the Moulin Rouge. La Goulue featured in many of Toulouse-Lautrec's works including his first poster for the Moulin Rouge in 1891. The present work was clearly a favoured study of the artist's, who appears to have incised the main contours of the figure in order to make transfers of the image. Toulouse-Lautrec was well-known use tracings in order to develop his compositions. A previous owner of this work was Dr. Gabriel Tapié de Celeyran, a cousin and close friend of the artist. Tapié de Celeyran was very tall and, in contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's diminutive stature, the pair were known to create quite a stir when they appeared in public together.
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La goulue de dos (Louise Weber)
La goulue de dos (Louise Weber)
stamped with the artist's monogram (lower left); inscribed 'la Goulue' (verso)
pencil on paper
16.3 x 9.8cm (6 7/16 x 3 7/8in).
Executed circa 1892
Provenance
Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran Collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern.
Galerie Michel, Paris.
Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 401 (acquired from the above in 1958).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Ingelheim am Rhein, C. H. Boehringer Sohn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Monotypien, Lithographien, Radierungen, Plakate, 4 May - 3 June 1968, no. 77.
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 56.
Literature
M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, Vol. V, New York, 1971, no. D3.311 (illustrated p. 547).
Known by the sobriquet 'La Goulue' (Greedy Guts), Louise Webster was a celebrated dancer of the Moulin Rouge. La Goulue featured in many of Toulouse-Lautrec's works including his first poster for the Moulin Rouge in 1891. The present work was clearly a favoured study of the artist's, who appears to have incised the main contours of the figure in order to make transfers of the image. Toulouse-Lautrec was well-known use tracings in order to develop his compositions. A previous owner of this work was Dr. Gabriel Tapié de Celeyran, a cousin and close friend of the artist. Tapié de Celeyran was very tall and, in contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's diminutive stature, the pair were known to create quite a stir when they appeared in public together.
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