Description
Luce Myrès appears in a faint red view of head and shoulders in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph. The sparse pale field gives the small drawn features particular emphasis rather than enclosing the figure in a busy setting. A front-facing portrait becomes an encounter through restraint, allowing the named person’s presence to emerge from a limited number of marks.
Made in 1895, the lithograph uses crayon and spatter and is printed in sanguine on wove paper. The warm printed tone gives the portrait another material character from a black impression. Toulouse-Lautrec’s subject remains particular through the sitter’s name and the concentrated viewpoint. Its interest lies in the attention granted to a single figure, where a printed image can preserve a close encounter with appearance beyond the brevity of ordinary social looking.
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