Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901). Title: "Monsieur au bar". Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper. Date: Composed c1894. Dimensions: Image size: 8 13/16 x 5 11/16 in. (224 x 144 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed with the monogram, lower right. Cream wove lightweight paper. Very good condition; creasing at the lower left and right corners; slight browing at the edges; minor handling dimples. Comment(s): Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. He was a painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. [30089-1-16000]