HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. 1864-1901

190 THE SINGER YVETTE GUILBERT. Sketch. 1894

Tempera on cardboard. 57 X 42 cm. Inv. No 3446 Signed and dated lower left: Lautrec 94 Above the signature is a half-obliterated inscription: A Arsene Alexandre

Yvette Guilbert (1867—1944) was one of Lautrec's favorite models. The Moscow work, which shows the actress performing the song Linger, longer, loo, was the first sketch for her portrait to be published in the review Le Rire. The portrait itself appeared in Le Rire (1894, No 7); printed in a small number of copies, it was sent as a bonus to the review's subscribers. The Moscow sketch was intended for Arsene Alexandre, the editor of the review, and remained with him until May 8, 1903, when his collection was sold at the Georges Petit Gallery. The sketch was acquired for the Bernheim Jeune Gallery (No 13183), and later was bought by Mikhail Morozov. In 1910 Morozov's widow presented the sketch to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Provenance: until May 8, 1903 The A. Alexandre Collection, Paris; from May 8, 1903 The Bernheim Jeune Collection, Paris (No 13183); until 1910 The M. Morozov Collection, Moscow; 1910—25 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; 1925—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1925 Moscow, Cat. 44; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 37

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 182; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1911, No 102; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1917, No 3952; Кат. ГМНЗИ 1928, No 620; Reau 1929, No 1122; G. Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec, New York, 1938, p. 68; Cahiers d'Art 1950, p. 348; J. Lassaigne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1953, p. 68; Dictionnaire de la peinture moderne, Paris, 1954, p. 294; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 167; Musee de Moscou 1963, p. 164, ill.; Antonova 1977, No 111

190 THE SINGER YVETTE GUILBERT. Sketch. 1894