Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) - Lot 347

Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) The Sescau Photographer Chromolithograph. Unprinted. Unsigned. Very rare. 61 x 79.5 cm Exhibition: - Toulouse-Lautrec and the French imprint, Jane Voorhes Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, April 2006 - February 2007 (label on back on mount). - Birmgham (shipping label on back of mount). Bibliography : Wittrock, p. 22, no. 800, version without mask. Confidential advertising! Sescau, a good friend of Lautrec's, had a photo studio in Place Pigalle, which was in fact mainly a place for trysts, as Lautrec clearly shows! The photographer is in the background - it's the woman in the foreground who takes up all the space. He goes so far as to make two versions: in one, the naughty woman is masked, in the other (ours) she isn't!