Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1864-1901
At the Café
1886
Brush and black ink with blue colored pencil over graphite on translucent paper.
26 x 20 7/8 inches (660 x 530 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.259
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Signed in graphite at lower left: T. Lautrec.

Provenance: 
Caressa, Paris; Georges Bernheim, Paris; John Nicholas Brown, Providence; Knoedler and Co., New York; Stanley S. Snellenburg, Philadelphia; sale, New York, Christie's, 7 November 1979, lot 14; Cowen family; by descent to Judy Cowen, New York; sale, New York, Sotheby's, 10 November 2000, lot 140, repr. in color; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Caressa, former owner.
Bernheim, Georges, former owner.
Brown, James Nicholas, former owner.
Snellenburg, Stanley, former owner.
Cowen family, former owner.
Cowen, Judy, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 383, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 52.

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