Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN (1859-1923) Preparatory drawing for the advertisement for the publication of Jehan Rictus's Soliloques du pauvre in the Revue le Canard Sauvage, 1903. Ink and black pencil. 20.5 x 24 cm Provenance : - Artine Artinian Collection (her stamp lower left - Lugt 3364). - Tajan sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 25, 1997, no. 196. Bibliography : Réjane Bargiel and Christophe Zagrodzki,Steinlen Affichiste, catalog raisonné, Lausanne, Editions du Grand-Pont, 1986, reproduced p.111. The advertisement was published in issue no. 16 of Le Canard Sauvage, July 5-11, 1903. This work is listed in the Steinlen archives of Madame Claude Orset and Madame Elisabeth Marechaux Laurentin for the publication of the catalog raisonné of Théophile Alexandre Steinlen's work.