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Yvette Guilbert

Maker

(lithographer)
1864-1901

(artist)
1864-1901

Title

Yvette Guilbert

Date of Production

1893

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 22.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1935.SC.198

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Label Text

Lautrec portrayed Yvette Guilbert more often than any other of the Parisian café-concert singers, featuring her in an album of lithographs dedicated to her. Well-known for her ribald songs, Guilbert was famous also for her tall, slim silhouette and long black gloves, carefully chosen, as she wrote in her memoirs, to exaggerate ‘my slightness of my arms, lending elegance also to my shoulders and the carriage of my neck, so long and slender.’ Her meticulously contrived appearance is perfectly described in this print.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Special Display - Impressionist Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2008-13/10/2008

Paris by Night: Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/04/2003-03/06/2003

Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed : signed in the stone : recto & lower right : initials in monogram, encircled : H T-L

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