Description
In Study of a Woman, a nude woman leans toward the right with one leg bent in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s image. Broad wash strengthens the upper-right area, giving the body a material setting as well as a contour. The figure’s changing stance makes observation active, allowing a single human subject to sustain an encounter without an elaborate narrative around her.
Made in 1893, the brush and spatter lithograph is printed in olive-green ink on Japan paper. Its character as a study concerns the subject’s treatment, while the medium remains a print rather than a unique drawing. Toulouse-Lautrec brings observation into a material form capable of circulation without losing its intimate scale. The work’s interest lies in that meeting of inquiry and printed presence, where one figure can become enough to sustain a careful look.
Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec collection.
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