Yvette Guilbert, Columbine Pierrot Original Lithograph after Toulouse Lautrec

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Yvette Guilbert, Columbine Pierrot Original Lithograph after Toulouse Lautrec:
$1545.00

Yvette Guilbert, Columbine Pierrot Original Lithograph after Toulouse Lautrec Product Description

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) originallithograph Columbine a Pierrot.

Originallypublished in 1895 in the Elles portfolio, this lithograph is from theposthumous printing authorized by the Musee d\' Albi from Lautrec\'s originalstone. The edition size for the vert was 200 numberedimpressions. There were also 1700 impressions in black and 50 in sepia. Thisparticular lithograph was printed in addition to the 200 for the publisher. Ithas H.C. (which stands for Hors Commerce), printed with pencil in the lowerleft of the image.

It is in good condition with expected agetoning, particularly under the mat area. It is attached to the mat on the versowith museum tape. There is also a natural flaw speck in the paper in the lowerright of the sheet. It does not distract from the beauty of the image.

Artist: Henri Toulouse Lautrec (after)

Medium: Lithograph on Velin de Rivespaper.

Image area: 9x4.5 inches (approx.)

Sheet: 11 x 15inches (approx.)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24,1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, theson and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a familythat dated back a thousand years. Henri\'s father was rich, handsome, andeccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Henri wasweak and often sick. By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint.

At 12 young Toulouse-Lautrec broke his leftleg and at 14 his right leg. The bones failed to heal properly, and his legsstopped growing. He reached young adulthood with a body trunk of normal sizebut with abnormally short legs. He was only 1.5 meters tall.

Deprived of the kind of life that a normalbody would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived wholly for his art. He stayedin the Montmartre section of Paris,the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved topaint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles wereset down on canvas or made into lithographs.

Toulouse-Lautrec was very much a part of allthis activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing anddrinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches. The next morningin his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored paintings.

In order tobecome a part of the Montmartre life--as wellas to protect himself against the crowd\'s ridicule of hisappearance--Toulouse-Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinkingstarted to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother

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