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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Dans l’escalier de la rue des Moulins

Live auction begins on:

June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 GBP

Bid

400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

1864 - 1901


Dans l’escalier de la rue des Moulins

signed T-Lautrec (lower right)

gouache and pastel on board

66.7 by 52.4 cm. 26¼ by 20⅝ in.

Executed in 1893.

Gustave Pellet, Paris (until 1919)

Maurice Exsteens, Paris (acquired by inheritance from the above)

Galerie Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern (acquired by 1960 and until at least 1962)

Sotheby’s, London, 26 April 1967, lot 15

Gabrielli (acquired from the above sale)

Jean-Louis Barthélémy

Akram Ojjeh, Monaco, (acquired from the above in 1982)

Christie’s, New York, 8 November 1999, lot 117 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Simone and Jean Tiroche, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, London, 18 June 2013, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1947, no. 27, p. 8 (titled Op de trap, in de Rue des Moulins and Sur l’escalier, rue des Moulins)

Musée d’Albi, Toulouse-Lautrec, ses Amis et ses Maîtres, 1951, no. 70, p. 9 (titled En haut de l’escalier de la rue des Moulins)

Bern, Galerie Klipstein und Kornfeld, Choix d’une collection privée - Sammlungen G.P. und M.E., 1960, no. 71, pp. 108-109, illustrated and detail illustrated in colour

Munich, Haus der Kunst and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, 1961-62, no. 142, p. 27 (titled Auf der Treppe des Hauses Rue des Moulins)

Musée d’Albi, Lautrec “elles”, 1976, no. 7, pp. 17 and 21, illustrated in colour

Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, vol. I, Paris, 1926, p. 283 (as unsigned and with incorrect dimensions)

Raymond Charmet, “Cinquante nouveaux Lautrec, trésors des collections privées”, in Arts, 11-17 March 1959, no. 713, p. 16

M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, vol. II, New York, 1971, no. P.495, pp. 304-305, illustrated (as unsigned)

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1991-92, pl. h, p. 409, illustrated