Lot 153
Dulac (Edmund) "The room of fruits prepared for Abu-l-Hasan", an original illustration for 'The Sleeper Awakened' in Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, watercolour, 1914
Hammer Price: £12,000
Description
Dulac (Edmund) "The room of fruits prepared for Abu-l-Hasan", 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 lower right corner, 360 x 290 mm (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in), under glass, inset into early mount with label verso, framed, 1913
Provenance:
Purchased from from The Leicester Galleries December 1915: purchase note to verso of frame; Collection of Donald and Barbara Dean [1976]; 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. 13: "Ernest Brown & Phillips: The Leicester Galleries" [label to verso]
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 25 [label to verso]
Dulwich Picture Galleries, 28 November 2007-17 February 2008, no. 117
Literature:
Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914, p.216;
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;
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]
Description
Dulac (Edmund) "The room of fruits prepared for Abu-l-Hasan", 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 lower right corner, 360 x 290 mm (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in), under glass, inset into early mount with label verso, framed, 1913
Provenance:
Purchased from from The Leicester Galleries December 1915: purchase note to verso of frame; Collection of Donald and Barbara Dean [1976]; 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. 13: "Ernest Brown & Phillips: The Leicester Galleries" [label to verso]
Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 25 [label to verso]
Dulwich Picture Galleries, 28 November 2007-17 February 2008, no. 117
Literature:
Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914, p.216;
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;
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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