print;
cover;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1920,0522.42
- Title
- Object: 'Les Vieilles Histoires', couverture-frontispice
- Description
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Cover-frontispiece for the series of song-sheets by Goudezki and Dihau: top-hatted gentleman leading bear on leash through Paris, beside the Seine, about to cross bridge to right; with title and captions; second edition. 1893
Colour crayon and spatter lithograph
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 338 millimetres
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Width: 541 millimetres (max.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.95)
One of an edition of 100 impressions. This print, folded down the centre, and with some extra lettering, served as the outer cover for a collection of songs by Jean Goudezki set to music by Désiré Dihau. Each piece was published separately and had its own cover design (five by Lautrec, the remainder by Ibels and others), and this wrapper seems to have been commissioned by the publisher Ondet as an inducement to buy the whole set. Dihau, who is the man in the top hat, was Lautrec's cousin; he appears in Degas' painting 'L'Orchestre de l'Opéra' (in the Louvre) playing the bassoon. The bear is Goudezki.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.95
2007 April-July BM, P&D, BMP Gift books display
2010 May-Aug, Liverpool, Walker AG, High Kicks and Low Life
2010 Sep-Nov, Middlesborough Inst Modern Art, High Kicks and Low Life
2011 Jan-April, Bedford, Cecil Higgins AG & Mus, High Kicks and Low Life
2011 April-July, Cardiff, NM Wales, High Kicks and Low Life
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Les Vielles Histoires
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1920,0522.42
