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- Museum number
- 1922,1218.8
- Title
- Object: Au concert
- Description
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Wealthy, well-dressed couple in red theatre box (Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran and Émilienne d'Alençon), the woman wearing fur and elaborate black hat. 1896
Colour brush and spatter zincograph with scraper, printed in brown, red, yellow, blue and black ink
- Production date
- 1896
- Dimensions
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Height: 320 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres (approx.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.133)
This lithograph was commissioned from Lautrec by Ault and Wiborg, the American manufacturers of lithographic ink. This impression belongs to a small edition run off in Paris; the zinc plates were then shipped to America and the lettering added before the main edition was printed. The four original zinc plates are now in the Art Institute of Chicago. This is said to be the only lithograph that Lautrec made on zinc; zinc obviously ran fewer risks than stone on the trans-Atlantic crossing.
The models are Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran, Lautrec's cousin, and Emilienne d'Alençon.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.133
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
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,1218.8
