Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC – Autograph letter signed to his mother
Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864 - 1901), French painter
Autograph letter signed “Henri” to his mother Adèle Zoë Tapié de Céleyran. (Paris, February 1891); 4 pages in-8°. A restored split, miter mark not affecting reading.
Rich letter from the painter Montmartrois evoking its topicality: “All that remains is for me to sing the Hosannah of the digestion of the capon which was quite remarkable. I still maintain my Albigensian travel plan. Tell Dad that his trinkets are being transported to his studio - just as he told them. Bourges and I have more or less found an apartment at 21 rue Fontaine, so the move won't be very dangerous. I send you herewith a very kind article which appeared on me [article by Jules Antoine in the newspaper La Plume of February 13, 1891 where the drawing of Toulouse Lautrec is compared to that of Edgar Degas], recriminating a good place, although the one that the Cercle gave me is not too bad, given the old people who are entitled to the picture rail [allusion here to his participation in the exhibition of the Volney Artistic and Literary Circle which took place from January 26 to February 24 1891]. I have just painted the portrait of Gaston Bonnefoy and have just begun that of Louis. I hope they won't be too ugly. On this I wish you copious digestions for Mardi Gras [February 10, 1891] preceding those windier of Lent [March 5, 1891]. And kiss you all. Yours…”
Toulouse-Lautrec shared an apartment with Doctor Henri Bourges, whose portrait he painted, at 19 rue Fontaine in Paris from 1887 to 1891, then at number 21 on the same street until the doctor married in 1893. He evokes, in his letter, the portraits of his two friends, Gaston Bonnefoy and Louis Pascal, belonging to a set of five portraits of friends executed in 1891, which he wishes to present at the Salon des Indépendants that year. In the end, he only kept three for the living room, including that of Gaston Bonnefoy today in the collections of the Thussen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, and that of Louis Pascal at the Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi.
Autograph letter signed “Henri” to his mother Adèle Zoë Tapié de Céleyran. (Paris, February 1891); 4 pages in-8°. A restored split, miter mark not affecting reading.
Rich letter from the painter Montmartrois evoking its topicality: “All that remains is for me to sing the Hosannah of the digestion of the capon which was quite remarkable. I still maintain my Albigensian travel plan. Tell Dad that his trinkets are being transported to his studio - just as he told them. Bourges and I have more or less found an apartment at 21 rue Fontaine, so the move won't be very dangerous. I send you herewith a very kind article which appeared on me [article by Jules Antoine in the newspaper La Plume of February 13, 1891 where the drawing of Toulouse Lautrec is compared to that of Edgar Degas], recriminating a good place, although the one that the Cercle gave me is not too bad, given the old people who are entitled to the picture rail [allusion here to his participation in the exhibition of the Volney Artistic and Literary Circle which took place from January 26 to February 24 1891]. I have just painted the portrait of Gaston Bonnefoy and have just begun that of Louis. I hope they won't be too ugly. On this I wish you copious digestions for Mardi Gras [February 10, 1891] preceding those windier of Lent [March 5, 1891]. And kiss you all. Yours…”
Toulouse-Lautrec shared an apartment with Doctor Henri Bourges, whose portrait he painted, at 19 rue Fontaine in Paris from 1887 to 1891, then at number 21 on the same street until the doctor married in 1893. He evokes, in his letter, the portraits of his two friends, Gaston Bonnefoy and Louis Pascal, belonging to a set of five portraits of friends executed in 1891, which he wishes to present at the Salon des Indépendants that year. In the end, he only kept three for the living room, including that of Gaston Bonnefoy today in the collections of the Thussen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, and that of Louis Pascal at the Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi.
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