The Chap Book

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)

Date1896

MediumColor lithograph on paper and fabric

DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 x 22 1/4 inches (37.78 x 56.52 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 23 3/8 inches (40.64 x 59.37 cm)
Framed: 19 x 26 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches (48.26 x 67.31 x 3.18 cm)

Credit LineAcquired through the Roy S. Odell Memorial Fund

Object numberF63-20

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Exhibition History

Posters by Painters, American Greetings Gallery, New York, June 15-August 2, 1965, no cat.

Posters and Modern Color Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 5-December 29, 1985, no. 19, as The Chap Book.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, November 19-December 31, 1989, no. 48, as The Chap Book.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 16-July 28, 1996, no. 24, as The Chap Book.

Provenance

With the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, by May 7, 1963;

Purchased from the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (xix et xx siècles), vol. 10, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 362, unpaginated, (repro.), as Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale (The Chap Book).

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965), no. 189.

Posters and Modern Color Prints, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1985), 8, as The Chap Book.

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. P. 18.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works; A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988), no. 139 II/II.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989), 11, as The Chap Book.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 7, as The Chap Book.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 298, as The Chap Book.

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