1927 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901

Description

An Important Work, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first trade edition of this work.

The original etching present, facing page 144.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-nine colour plates, fifty-eight monochrome plates, and eighty in-text illustrations.

Collated, complete.

Bound in the original publisher's illustrated paper wraps.

Half-title is present.

In the original French.

A biography on the life and work of the noted French Post-Impressionist painter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Toulouse-Lautrec was a well beloved painter of the nineteenth century, immersed in the life of Parisian theatres, from which he drew inspiration, painting scences of the decadent and modern affairs of the era.

Written by Maurice Joyant. Joyand was the manager of Boussod, Valadon et Cie in Paris, and was a lifelong friend of Toulouse-Lautrec, who he met at the Lycee Fontanes in 1872. Joyant was also the nephew of the painter Jules-Romain Joyant.

Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Mildred Josephine Eckers'.