Femme sur le Dos - Lassitude

Femme sur le Dos - Lassitude is a color lithograph realized by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in 1896. 

cm. 58 x 45, matted. 

Monogrammed on plate.

Good conditions.

This specimen belongs to an edition of 1900 ca., whose size is unknown, on Vélin Hollande Van Gelder Zonen.

Van Gelder Zonen watermark in the paper.

Elles; 1896 is the year of the album "Elles". The series was printed in 100 copies. The title page was also used as a Manifesto. The subject is life inbrothels,

and Lautrec wants to show that women of pleasure, whom he has known well, especially for two years, are not damned souls, but live like theothers. He

calls them Elles (they), a pronoun that refers to all women and very little in his drawings of him suggests that they are prostitutes. The womenLautrec

frequented cared about him very much. This series of ten lithographs plus the cover constitutes one of the peaks of Lautrec's oeuvre.He had three women

pose, Pauline, Baron, and another buxom woman whose name we have no name. The album was not very successful in bookstores, but aroused great

interest from other artists, so much so that the following year the painter Truchetentitled Elles the painting he presented at the 1899 Salon, representing a

group of women in long dresses gathered together in a room. As often happens, the Elles series was re-evaluated years later due to the "very skilful"

technique and the avant-garde wayof dealing with the subject.