Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Important French painter and printmaker (1864–1901) whose lively, colorful portrayals of the people and places of fin-de-siècle Paris take a place among the most iconic images of the era. Lautrec’s immersion in art stemmed largely from his isolation following a disfiguring teenage accident that failed to heal properly, preventing his legs from growing further while his torso continued to develop normally. Extremely scarce ALS in French, signed “HT Lautrec,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, March 11. Letter to art critic Frantz Jourdain. In full (translated): “I thank you for your kind invitation but I have contracted a bad influenza which prevents me absolutely from going out at night. Believe me I deeply regret and please present my valid apologies to Mrs. Jourdain. Most cordially to you and your son.” Central horizontal and vertical fold passing through signature, otherwise fine condition.
Jourdain was a well-known art critic, writer, and architect—as well as a close friend of many painters of the late 19th century, including Toulouse-Lautrec. He often reviewed the artist’s work, and included a discussion of one of his posters in the 1893 La Plume article ‘L’Affiche Moderne et Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’ (‘The Modern Poster and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.’) Here, the famed painter regrettably declines an invitation from Jourdain and his family, as “a bad influenza” has curtailed his nighttime activities. Interestingly enough, Jourdain’s son, mentioned here, was furniture designer Francis Jourdain. Any correspondence from Toulouse-Lautrec is seldom encountered, much less an item composed to an artistically inclined friend and influential admirer.
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