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How much is The Laundress worth?

The Laundress last publicly sold for $22.4 million at Christie's New York in 2005.

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas

Sold for$22.4MChristie's New York · 2005

About the painting

A laundress rests her hands on a table and looks out of the window, caught in the moment of stopping rather than working. It comes from early in Toulouse-Lautrec's career, before the Montmartre posters, and is one of the few times he treated a working woman as a straight portrait subject.

More on the artist: the most expensive Toulouse-Lautrec ever sold, and where the famous ones hang.

Toulouse-Lautrec next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Toulouse-Lautrec: $22.4 million for La Blanchisseuse (this painting), in 2005.

Pissarro$32.1MLe Boulevard Montmartre, matinée de printemps · 2014
Vermeer$30.1MA Young Woman Seated at the Virginals · 2004
Michelangelo$27.2MStudy for the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl · 2026
Sargent$23.5MGroup with Parasols · 2004
Toulouse-Lautrec$22.4MLa Blanchisseuse · 2005
Velázquez$17MSaint Rufina · 2007
Goya$16.4MPortraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso · 2023
El Greco$14MSaint Dominic in Prayer · 2013
Delacroix$9.88MTigre jouant avec une tortue · 2018

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

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