Edmund Dulac | Lancelot and Agravain, 1939, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Lancelot and Agravain, 1939

308 x 345mm. (frame 468 x 488mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT, mounted, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1940 series of American Weekly covers, 'Seven Tales of Arthur's Court', published 17th March 1940. The other tales illustrated were: Arthur finding Excalibur, Tristan and Isolde (see lot 280), Morgan steals the sheath of Excalibur, The Death of Galahad (see lot 281), Lancelot and the four Queens (see lot 282), and Merlin trapped under the Rock.

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 41: label to verso, listed as no. 40

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 17th March 1940, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.178; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982