Henri de Toulouse

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Au lit, 1892
Gouache on cardboard, 53 x 33.5 cm
Signed upper left: HTLautrec
Dortu no. P.437
Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1) ▪ Maurice Exsteens, Paris (by 1934) (2) ▪ Gustave Pellet, Paris (by
1951) (3) ▪ Dr. Christoph Bernoulli, Basel (4) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (7 May 1952 until [d.] 28
November 1956) (5) ▪ The estate of Emil Bührle (1956–1967) (6) ▪ Dr. Dieter Bührle, Zurich (1967
until [d.] 2012) (7) ▪ Bequest of Dr. Dieter Bührle to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no.
184 (2012).
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AStEGB, Inventory Card Toulouse-Lautrec, Au lit; this entry is corroborated by a gallery label on the back of
the painting, with an inventory no. 1020.
Gauguin, ses Amis, l'Ecole de Pont-Aven et l'Académie Julien, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Galerie Wildenstein),
Paris 1934, no. 128; a label on the back of the painting identifies M. Exsteens as the lender to the
exhibition.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Exposition en l'honneur du cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, Orangerie des Tuileries,
Paris 1951, no. 38.
AStEGB, Entry Book I, 7 May 1952, identifies Dr. Christoph Bernoulli as the consigner, Inventory Card
as above, n. (1), mentions both Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Chr. Bernoulli as the sellers.
Acquired from the above, Entry book as above, n. (4).
AStEGB, Inventory of the works remaining in the possession of the late Emil Bührle's family after the
establishment of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection (1960), dated 1 April 1967, when the works were
divided among Emil Bührle's son, Dr. Dieter Bührle, and his daughter, Hortense Anda-Bührle.
Son of Emil Bührle and, in 1960, along with his mother Charlotte Bührle-Schalk and his sister Hortense
(Anda-)Bührle, one of the three founders of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, where he served on
the Board from 1960 to 2012.
Exhibitions
Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Musée des Arts décoratifs (Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan), Paris,
1931, no. 88. ▪ Gauguin, ses Amis, l'Ecole de Pont-Aven et l'Académie Julien, Gazette des BeauxArts (Galerie Wildenstein), Paris 1934, no. 128. ▪ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Kunsthalle Basel 1947,
no. 177. ▪ Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1947, no. 24. ▪ Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1947, no 24. ▪ La douceur de vivre, Galerie
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1948, no. 35. ▪ Toulouse-Lautrec, Exposition en l'honneur du cinquantième
anniversaire de sa mort, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1951, no. 38. ▪ Toulouse-Lautrec, Hayward
Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris 1991–92, no. 138. ▪ Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman as Myth, Basil &
Elise Goulandris Foundation (Museum of Contemporary Art), Andros (Greece) 2001, no. 2. ▪ Bordell
und Boudoir, Schauplätze der Moderne, Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Kunsthalle
Tübingen 2005, no. 72. ▪ Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co., Kunsthalle Tübingen 2011–12, no. 99. ▪
Toulouse-Lautrec und die Photographie, Kunstmuseum Bern 2015, p. 249 (ill.).
References
Gustave Coquiot, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris 1913, p. 205 (ill.). ▪ Gustave Coquiot, ToulouseLautrec, Berlin 1923, fig. 2. ▪ Alexander Brook, "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec", in The Arts (Sept.)
1923, p. 154 (ill.). ▪ Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864–1901, vol. 1, Peintre, Paris
1926, p. 282, no. 8 (2New York 1968). ▪ Gotthard Jedlicka, Toulouse-Lautrec, Berlin 1929, p. 311. ▪
Gotthard Jedlicka, Lautrec, Berlin 1930, p. 308 (ill.). ▪ René Huyghe, "Aspects de Toulouse-Lautrec",
in L'Amour de l'art (April) 1931, fig. 17. ▪ Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains
1910–1930, René Edouard-Joseph (ed.), vol. 3, Paris 1934, p. 348 (ill.). ▪ Mac Orlan, Lautrec, Paris
1934, ill. ▪ Émile Schaub-Koch, Psychanalyse d'un peintre moderne, Paris 1935, p. 192. ▪ Gerstle
Mack, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, New York 1938, p. 251. ▪ Jacques Lassaigne, Toulouse-Lautrec,
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Paris 1939, p. 120 (ill.). ▪ Reginald Howard Wilenski, Modern French Painters, London 1940, p. 385
(21944; 31945; 41947). ▪ Gotthard Jedlicka, Toulouse-Lautrec, Erlenbach/Zurich 21943, p. 245 (ill.). ▪
Lionello Venturi, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Brussels 1947, p. 4 (ill.). ▪ Francis Jourdain, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, Lausanne 1948, fig. 20. ▪ Walter Kern, Lautrec, Bern 1948, fig. 20. ▪ Marcel G.
Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris 1952, fig. 7. ▪ Giorgio Caproni, Gabriele Mandel Sugana, L'opera
completa di Toulouse-Lautrec, Milan 1969, no. 315 (ill.; 21977; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk
von Toulouse-Lautrec, Lucerne etc. 1969; Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de ToulouseLautrec, Barcelona 1970; 21988; English edition: Gabriele Mandel Sugana, Denys Sutton, The
Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, London 1973; French edition: Bruno Foucart, Gabriele
Mandel Sugana, Tout l'œuvre peint de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris 1986, no. 315 [ill.]). ▪ Marcel G.
Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, Catalogue des peintures, aquarelles, monotypes, reliure,
vitrail, céramique, dessins, New York 1971, vol. 2, no. P.437 (ill.; German edition: Marcel G. Dortu,
J. A. Méric, Toulouse-Lautrec, Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt/M. etc. 1980).
Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zürich 1958, no. 204; Edinburgh 1961, no. 64; London 1961,
no. 64; Lucerne 1963, no. 45.
Exhibitions cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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