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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Source

2 Lot Sold
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French, 1864–1901

At the Moulin Rouge

Date
1892–95
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
123 × 141 cm (48 7/16 × 55 1/2 in.); Framed: 136.9 × 154.7 × 8.5 cm (53 7/8 × 60 7/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Inscription
Stamped with the studio mark lower right
Department
Impressionist & Modern Art
Price realised £19,100,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Spring Evening Sale, 14 May 2026

A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

  • The artist's studio
  • Private collection, Paris
  • Acquired by the present owner, 1994

Exhibited

  • Paris, memorial exhibition, 1902

Literature

  • Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre, no. P.427

Condition

The added strip along the right edge is original and was joined by the artist. Surface stable.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.