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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Lot 1314

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Yvette Guilbert

Closed17 November 2016

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USD 247,500

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Yvette Guilbert
signed with monogram (upper right) and inscribed 'Petit monstre!! Mais vous avez fait une horreur!! Yvette Guilbert' (lower left); stamped 'EMILE MULLER IVRY PARIS REPRODUCTION INTERDITE' (on the reverse)
hand-painted, engraved and partially glazed ceramic plaque
20 ¼ x 11 1/8 in. (51.5 x 28.4 cm.)
Executed in 1895

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1992, lot 23.
Soufer Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993.

Specialist note

Yvette Guilbert commissioned this plaque from Toulouse-Lautrec as the top for a small tea table. Lautrec sent the design to the potter Emile Muller in Ivry for him to produce a ceramic tile. Lautrec hand-colored each plaque himself before it was fired and no two examples are identical. When he submitted the design to Yvette Guilbert, she added the humourous inscription which appears in the lower left corner.