Lot 152
Dulac (Edmund) "Abu-l-Hasan awakens in the bed of the Khalifeh", an original illustration for 'The Sleeper Awakened' in Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, watercolour 1913
Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000
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Dulac (Edmund) "Abu-l-Hasan awakens in the bed of the Khalifeh", an original illustration for 'The Sleeper Awakened' in Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, watercolour heightened with white and gold, over pencil, signed and dated in the upper left corner, 320 x 250 mm (12 1/2 x 9 7/8 in), under glass, inset into early mount with label verso, framed, 1913
Provenance:
Collection of the late Colin White
Exhibited:
Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915, Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac, no. 14
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 24 [label verso]
Dulwich Picture Galleries, 28 November 2007-17 February 2008, no. 116
Literature:
Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914, p. 200;
Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915;
Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 69-72;
Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982;
The age of enchantment : Beardsley, Dulac and their contemporaries, 1890-1930, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, [2007]
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Description
Dulac (Edmund) "Abu-l-Hasan awakens in the bed of the Khalifeh", an original illustration for 'The Sleeper Awakened' in Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, watercolour heightened with white and gold, over pencil, signed and dated in the upper left corner, 320 x 250 mm (12 1/2 x 9 7/8 in), under glass, inset into early mount with label verso, framed, 1913
Provenance:
Collection of the late Colin White
Exhibited:
Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915, Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac, no. 14
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 24 [label verso]
Dulwich Picture Galleries, 28 November 2007-17 February 2008, no. 116
Literature:
Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914, p. 200;
Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915;
Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 69-72;
Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982;
The age of enchantment : Beardsley, Dulac and their contemporaries, 1890-1930, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, [2007]
Condition
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