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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (French, 1864–1901). Toulouse-Lautrec Original Signed Sketch Drawing. Paris, ca. 1878/82. Signed LOAs from JSA (Cert. No. BB41290) and Beckett (Cert. No. A31651). Steel-tip fountain pen on trimmed paper (3 x 4 ¾”). FOUR TIMES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, including two monograms. Affixed to trimmed cardstock with a red stamp from the famed art gallery of Goupil & Cie. Provenance: from the Paris art gallery of Goupil & Cie. Adolphe Goupil was one of Europe’s best-known fine art and print dealers, especially as publishers of Lautrec lithographs, with a most notable partner, Vincent Van Gogh (1820–1888); the uncle of the painter Vincent van Gogh, known as “Uncle Cent” by Vincent and his brother Theo. The young Vincent worked alongside his uncle from 1869 to 1873 as the youngest clerk at The Hague’s branch of Goupil & Cie. In 1888, Theo van Gogh bought Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Poudre de Riz” for 150 francs for the gallery that year which became the start of the artist’s rise to recognition.