print
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.3648
- Title
- Object: Au Star (Le Havre)
- Description
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Actress/singer on stage(?) seen three-quarter length facing right, pointing, her face in profile, wearing low-cut dress. 1899
Lithograph, printed on imitation japan paper
- Production date
- 1899
- Dimensions
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Height: 463 millimetres
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Width: 370 millimetres (max.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.138)
In May 1899 Lautrec was released from the clinic after his cure from alcoholism, and was dispatched to the south of France to complete his cure. This lithograph records an English barmaid at the Star in Le Havre where he was waiting to take a boat to Bordeaux. Joyant thought that this print was done on a journey before 1899, but a painting of the same model (Dortu 684) which is dated 1899 proves him wrong. It was published in an edition of c.15 impressions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.138
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
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- Bought by Dodgson at Sotheby's (23.iii.1926, lot 188) for £8
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.3648
