Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1865-1901) Marcelle Lender dansant Le Pas de Boléro, dans Chilpérac (Marcelle Lender dancing the Bolero) Lithograph printed in green, 1895, on smooth wove paper, signed in pencil, with the blind-stamp of the publisher, Kleinmann, from the edition of 50, published by Kleinmann, Paris (without Kleinmanns stamp or number which was added to only part of the edition) Subject: 37 x 26.2 cm; Sheet: 57 x 39 cm Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1974 Literature: Delteil 104; Adhemar 128; Wittrock 103; Adriani 112 Marcelle Lender (1862-1926) was a French singer and dancer who appears several times in the works of Toulouse-Lautrec. Here she is dancing the Bolero during her February 1895 performance in the Hervé operetta Chilpéric at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. He apparently attended the operetta more than 20 times just to see Lender dance the Bolero in the second act