T-Lautrec Portfolio

New York, London: American Studio Books, 1946. First edition. Loose leaf. Near fine to fine condition. Elephant Folio. [i] xii plates. Original rose-cream colored stiff wraps, illustrated lithographically, with black lettering on cover. "Some artists have the faculty of summing up an epoch, of silhouetting its characteristic traits and gestures. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was such an artist: in his drawings and lithographs the Paris of the Gay Nineties is preserved in all its vivacity, particularly the night life with its fin-de-siècle mingling of tinsel and glamor." (Zigrosser). The portfolio contains twelve lithographs: I. La modiste, 1893 (Menu for Mlle. Renée Vert); II. Monsieur et Dame, 1893 (Program for the play by Fabre); III. La loge à mascaron doré, 1893 (Program for the play "Le missionaire); IV. Stude de femme, 1893; V. V. Yvette Guilbert, 1893; VI. Pourquoi pas, 1893; VII. À Menilmontant, de Bruant, 1893 (Yvette Guilbert singing Bruant's song); VIII. Confetti, 1894; IX. May Milton, 1895; X. La troup de Mile. Églantine, 1896 (Églantine, Avril, Cléopatre, and Gazelle); XI. The Chap Book, 1896 (The Irish American Bar on the Rue Royal); XII. Jane Avril, 1899. Portfolio with minor wear.