Marnie Weber House of Falling Leaves

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) “Allégorie. Le printemps de la vie” – oil on canvas signed with the artist’s monogram (lower left) 21 ¾ x 16 5/8 in. (55.2 x 42.2 cm) Painted in 1883 Provenance: K.K. Happtzollant, Vienna Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Bathélémy, Toulouse-Lautrec, May 1903, no. 4. Chicago, Richard L. Feigen and Col, Six Centuries of Myth and Legend, Feb.-April 1988, no. 34. Literature: M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, vol. I, 1926, p.259, vol.II, pp. 6 and 40. P. de Lapparent, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1927, p. 15. H. Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, 1958, p.78 M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. II, New York, 1971, no. 204 (illustrated, p.89). G. Murray, Toulouse-Lautrec – The Formative Years 1878-1891, Oxford, 1991, pp. 48 and 238.