André LHOTE (1885-1962) The man at the bar Ink Signed lower right 29.5 x16 cm (small crease in lower left corner) We would like to thank Madame Dominique Bermann-Martin, heir to the André Lhote archives and in charge of the artist's catalog raisonné, for informing us that this drawing was a project for the illustrations in Jean Cocteau's book "Escales", which André Lhote illustrated and designed in 1920 (published by La Sirène).