Live Auction 16721The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Fine Art, Day Sale
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Lot 504 The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Yvette Guilbert

Closed10 May 2018

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Yvette Guilbert
inscribed with monogram (upper right) and inscribed 'Petit monstre! Mais vous avez fait une horreur!! Yvette Guilbert!' (lower left)
white earthenware ceramic plaque, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze
20 ¼ x 11 1/8 in. (51.5 x 28.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1895

Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York (circa 1925).
Acquired from the estate of the above by the late owners, November 1984.

Specialist note

Lautrec met the famed singer, Yvette Guilbert, in 1894. She was a favorite subject for the artist in subsequent years, sitting for him for numerous drawings. Guilbert commissioned this plaque from Lautrec as the top for a small tea table. He sent the design to the potter Emile Muller in Ivry 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.