Lender Saluant. Mlle Lender Saluant son Public. by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901
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Lender Saluant. Mlle Lender Saluant son Public.

Original lithograph in olive green ink. 1895. Signed with the monogram in the stone. From the edition of 50 impressions only. This impression inscribed in pencil lower right 'No 11'. Printed at the studio of Ancourt, 1895. Published by Kleinmann, Paris 1895.
Ref: Wittrock - Toulouse Lautrec The Prints no 106. Adriani - Toulouse Lautrec Graphic Work no 114.

Extremely fine impression. On pale cream light wove paper. Excellent original condition. Full margins, including the deckle edges. Sheet: 20 1/8 x 15 3/4ins. Image overall: 12
5/8 x 10 3/8ins. (320x264mm).

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Lautrec visited the Théatre des Variétés on the Boulevard Montparnasse where Lender played the lead in the play Chilperic perhaps a dozen times. It was not the play which attracted him, by all accounts a rather stupid mediaeval farce, but the fact that his heroine Marcelle Lender danced the bolero in it clad in a flimsy and deliberately suggestive costume. Of all the great music hall and ?actress? stars of the period it was certainly Marcelle Lender who was Lautrec?s greatest muse and inspiration.

Mlle Lender?s act was characterised by her use of extravagant body and arm movements which combined to give her an extraordinary stage presence. The way in which Lautrec was able to express the whole style and atmosphere of her act, as well as her striking rather beautiful appearance, through the strokes, whirls and shading in his chalk encapsulates all that is most inspired in his approach to drawing in lithography.

This study, one of the most brilliant of Lautrec?s theatre studies, shows Lender taking her bow at the end of her performance. One of the most beautiful qualities in it is the rich variation in the light which comes from the range of density in the strokes. The lithograph was issued in an edition of 50 impressions and it only appears rarely on the market.
This is a particularly fine impression in unusually fresh original condition.