
May Milton
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, October 1926 [invoice]; bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (c.1879-1947) to the Art Institute, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Lautrec, Redon," 1931, p. 4, cat. 24.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, September 9, 1988-August 12, 1989.
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre," p. 59, cat. 64 (ill.); shown in Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, March 20-June 12, 2005, and The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-October 10, 2005.
Literature
Published references
- Frank Getlein, "The Artist Looks at People: Portrait Show at The Art Institute of Chicago," Art In America XLVI (Winter 1958–59), pp. 65–66 (ill.).
- Reinhold Heller, “Rediscovering Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘At the Moulin Rouge,’” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 12:2 (1986), pp. 115-135 (ill.).
- Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1997).
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