Yvette Guilbert, in “Colombine to Pierrot”

Original Language TitleYvette Guilbert, Dans Colombine à Pierrot

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

Date1894

MediumLithograph; printed in olive green

DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (37.78 x 27.62 cm)
Sheet: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.94 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch

Object numberF83-31/7

Edition/State/Prooffourth state

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Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Gallery Label

Yvette Guilbert was a popular cabaret singer in Paris in the late 1800s. Slim and stern in appearance, she performed in long black gloves that accentuated her dramatic gestures. Yvette met Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec at the height of her success and instantly became one of his favorite subjects. Never one to flatter, here he depicts the singer in the harsh glare of gas stage lights. He also plays up her trademark black gloves to emphasize her crude gesture.

Provenance

Robert L. (b. 1952) and Barbara E. (née Klugman, b. 1958) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, by July 12, 1983;

Given by Robert L. and Barbara E. Bloch to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1983.

Published References

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (xix et xx siècles), vol. 10, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 96, unpaginated, (repro.), as Yvette Guilbert, Dans Colombine a [sic] Pierrot.

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965), no. 103.

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. 68 IV/IV.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works; A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988), no. 90.

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 Yvette Guilbert, Dans Colombine à Pierrot.

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