23 The Café Concert. 1893. Lithograph. Album... Lot 23

23 The Café Concert. 1893. Lithograph. Album size: 330 x 445. Delteil 28 to 38; Wittrock 18 to 28. A folio album, containing 11 plates by Toulouse-Lautrec and 11 by Ibels (including one on the upper cover of the strong japanese cover, filled in), preceded by 16 leaves of text by G. Montorgueil. Very nice proofs on cream vellum. All margins. One of 500 ordinary copies on glazed vellum (besides 50 on japon vergé). Publication of L'Estampe originale (A. Marty). 6 000 - 8 000 € List of Lautrec's plates: Jane Avril Yvette Guilbert Paula Brébion Mary Hamilton Edmée Lescot Madame Abdala Aristide Bruant Caudieux - Petit Casino Ducarre at the Ambassadors A spectator American singer Slight dusting and clear trace of oxidation on some leaves. Minor damage to the edges of the folio on some pages, with some rare foxing or small stains on the text leaves. "The first publisher to perceive that Lautrec's art could move from the poster to the small-format print for the collector's wallet was André Marty. It was he who commissioned the highly original colour lithograph of Loïe Fuller, the cover of L'Estampe Originale, and the series Le Café-Concert, which inaugurated the regular commissions of Lautrec for Parisian entertainment scenes, a habit subsequently taken up by many other publishers. (Antony Griffiths, "Les Estampes de Toulouse-Lautrec", in Wittrock, volume 1, p. 44). "... he published the album Café-Concert (registered on 13 December [1893]) with Marty and Ibels. His eleven lithos alternate with the eleven by Ibels, who was better known than he was at the time and who was considered the official draughtsman of the Demi-Cabots, that is to say, of the artists of the small theatres, where he undoubtedly led Lautrec. The two men had known each other at least since the beginning of 1893 (Lautrec drew a portrait of him which was reproduced in the Plume, January 15, 1893, and Lautrec was to be godfather to Ibels' son to whom he promised to make a mechanical horse which he wanted to be so beautiful, that he was unable to realize it). "(Adhémar, p. XV).