Lot 97

Private Estate, Australia
Private collection, Melbourne

Toulouse-Lautrec from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 5 April - 4 July 1999 (another example)
The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution, New York Historical Society, New York, 11 October 2013 - 23 February 2014 (another example)
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Materials and Techniques, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29 April - 26 July 2021 (another example)

Delteil, L., Le Peintre Graveur Illustré (XIX et XX Siècles), Chez l'Auteur, Paris,1907, p. 420, cat. no. 341 (illus., another example)
Adriani, G., Toulouse-Lautrec: The Entire Graphic Work, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1976, p. 55, cat. no. 8 (illus., another example)
Wittrock, W., Toulouse-Lautrec, The Complete Prints, Sotheby's Publications, London, 1985, vol. II, pp. 776, 777, cat. no. P11 (illus., another example)

Divan Japonais was one of the many café-concerts in late nineteenth-century Paris frequented by Toulouse-Lautrec. His lithograph advertising the nightspot features two of his favourite Montmartre stars, Yvette Guilbert and Jane Avril. Here, Avril is a spectator, not a performer, as she sits in the foreground with Édouard Dujardin, a dandyish writer and nightclub habitué. In the upper left corner, on stage, is the headless body of Guilbert, recognisable by her trademark long black gloves and gaunt physique.