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Dulac, Edmund.
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- "Sinbad the Sailor entertains Sinbad the Landsman"Watercolour, 12 5/8 x 10 1/8"[from Sinbad the Sailor and other stories..., 1914]
- [from Sinbad the Sailor and other stories...]
- Ink and watercolour drawing on paper, framed
- 12 5/8 x 10 1/8"
- 320.67 x 257.17 mm
"Sindbad the Sailor entertains Sindbad the Landsman"
12 5/8 by 10 1/8 in.; fine ink, pencil and watercolor drawing, signed and dated "Edmund Dulac | [19]14" lower left, matted, glazed and framed (25 3/8 by 20 3/4 in.)
12 5/8 by 10 1/8 in.; fine ink, pencil and watercolor drawing, signed and dated "Edmund Dulac | [19]14" lower left, matted, glazed and framed (25 3/8 by 20 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, December 1915 (number 17); Dulwich Picture Gallery "Beardsley, Dulac and their Contemporaries, 1890-1930", November 2007 - February 2008 (illus in catalogue, p. 136)
Catalogue Note
Published as the frontispiece to Sindbad the Sailor and other Stories from The Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton, 1914). The frame includes the original labels from the 1915 Leicester Galleries exhibition. A review of the book in The Times noted that Dulac "...has provided pictures which preserve to a marvel the Persian feeling..." (10 December 1914).