Lot 127
Original illustration.- Dulac (Edmund) Marie Antoinette, watercolour and bodycolour, 1934
Hammer Price: £2,000
Description
Original illustration.- Dulac (Edmund) Marie Antoinette, watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, signed in the lower left corner, image 325 x 305 mm (12 3/4 x 12 in), under glass, colours fresh and vivid, framed, 1934
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Colin White; thence by descent.
Exhibited:
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 35: label to verso
Literature:
Reproduced American Weekly, 3rd June 1934, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.155, 157, 161; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982
⁂ Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1934 series of American Weekly covers, 'Follies that destroyed famous Queens', published 3rd June 1934. The other Queens illustrated for the series were: Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, Dido, Queen Chand (a 15th-century Indian ruler) and Isabella of Bavaria.
Description
Original illustration.- Dulac (Edmund) Marie Antoinette, watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, signed in the lower left corner, image 325 x 305 mm (12 3/4 x 12 in), under glass, colours fresh and vivid, framed, 1934
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Colin White; thence by descent.
Exhibited:
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 35: label to verso
Literature:
Reproduced American Weekly, 3rd June 1934, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.155, 157, 161; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982
⁂ Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1934 series of American Weekly covers, 'Follies that destroyed famous Queens', published 3rd June 1934. The other Queens illustrated for the series were: Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, Dido, Queen Chand (a 15th-century Indian ruler) and Isabella of Bavaria.