Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part I
Auction: February 27, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Signed and dated ‘H T Monda [underlined]/82’ bottom right, charcoal on paper
Sheet size: 23 5/8 x 17 7/8 in. (60 x 45.4cm)
Collection of Comtesse de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Collection of the Tapié de Céleyran Family.
Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd., London, United Kingdom.
Charles E. Slatkin, New York.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
Acquired directly from the above on October 24, 1966.
Collection of John T. Dorrance, Jr.
His Sale, Sotheby's, New York, sale of October 19, 1989, lot 96.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Madeleine Grillaert Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son Œuvre, Collectors Editions, New York, 1971, Vol. V, pp. 424-425, no. D.2633 (illustrated).
In 1882, Toulouse-Lautrec produced an entire series of family portraits. The sitter in the present work is the artist’s uncle, brother to his mother, Adèle Tapié de Céleyran, which he depicted several other times in his career.