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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Au cirque: Éléphant en liberté
signed with monogram (lower right) and stamped with monogram (Lugt 5894; lower left)
black and colored chalk and pencil on paper
14 x 9 3/4 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Drawn in 1899
Provenance
Maurice Joyant, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Mme D (by 1931).
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, September 1931).
Martin Birnbaum, New York (acquired from the above, 27 March 1934).
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, 1934, then by descent to the late owner).
Literature
A. Alexandre, Toulouse-Lautrec, au cirque: Trente-neuf dessins au crayon de couleurs, Paris, 1905, no. 5 (illustrated in color).
G. Coquiot, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1913, p. 206.
T. Duret, Lautrec, Paris, 1920, pp. 69-70.
G. Coquiot, Toulouse-Lautrec: Ou quinze ans de mœurs Parisiennes, Paris, 1921, pp. 82 and 138-140.
A. Astre, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1925, p. 129.
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Peintre, Paris, 1926, pp. 223-226.
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dessins, estampes, affiches, Paris, 1927, vol. II, p. 234.
Kunst and Künstler, 1932 (illustrated).
M. Orlan, Lautrec, Paris, 1934, p. 333.
E. Julien, T-Lautrec, Monaco, 1942, p. 12.
M. Delaroche-Vernet Henraux, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dessinateur, Paris, 1948, p. 9.
W. Kern, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bern, 1948, p. 16.
M.G. Dortu, L'étrange Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1951, p. 6.
E. Julien, Lautrec: Dessins, Paris, 1951, p. 11.
F. Jourdain and J. Adhémar, T-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, p. 55.
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1952, p. 8.
J. Lassaigne, The Taste of our Time: Lautrec, Geneva, 1953, p. 104.
D. Cooper, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec London, 1955, p. 44.
H. Landlot, Toulouse-Lautrec, Basel, 1955, no. 29.
H. Perruchot, Le vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1958, pp. 314 and 320.
E. Julien, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cologne and Milan, 1959, p. 53.
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, New York, 1971, vol. VI, p. 820, no. D. 4.526 (illustrated, p. 821).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec trentenaire, April-May 1931, p. 80, no. 246.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Toulouse-Lautrec: Au cirque, November-December 1931, no. 4.
Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Toulouse-Lautrec, October 1955-February 1956, no. 116 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March-May 1956, no. 78.