Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé). Head of a woman, ca. 1892. Pencil on paper. 11x10,5cm. Dortu D.3282, illustrated page 540. From a European private collection; Phillips 1990 (27 June) lot 10; Göteborg Konstmuseum 1955 (2-27 September) lot 26; former Vladimir Raykis (1898-1966) collection; former Maurice Bunau-Varilla (1856-1944) collection, Drouot 1947 (9-10 July) lot 9

Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce charming and provocative images of the modern - sometimes decadent - affairs of those times. He is one of the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Vincent van Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin.