About the Artwork
Two Clowns
1875/1925
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec
1864-1901
French
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On wove paper
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 14 in. (25.2 x 35.6 cm) Frame: 21 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (62.2 x 52.1 x 8.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.297.B
Public Domain
Markings
Monogrammed in black chalk at bottom left, three inches from left margin. Traces of red monogram in lower right corner.
Provenance
Maurice Joyant;Mme. Dortu;
Jacques Seligman 1994;
Robert H. Tannahill (1944-1970)
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Figaro Artistiqu¦, April 1902, p 13 (repr. in color).
Joyant, Maurice.¦ Henri de Toulouse-Lautre¦ Paris, 1927, p 239.
Jaccomet, Daniel.¦ Toulouse-Lautrec au cirqu¦ ,¦ 17 dessin¦, 1932, no. 13 (as: Ballet-Fantaisie Nautique et Japonaise).
Frankfurter, Alfred. " Master Drawings of Five Centuries."¦ Art New¦, November 1938 (repr)
"Souvenir de Papa Chrysanthème, at the Nouveau Cirque, November 1892"
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT FREE PRESS, April 26, 1981, p 15 (ill).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, Two Clowns, 1875/1925, on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.297.B.
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