Edmund Dulac | Tristan and Isolde, 1939, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Tristan and Isolde, 1939

308 x 347mm. (frame 495 x 512mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1940 series of American Weekly covers, 'Seven Tales of Arthur's Court', published 11th February 1940. The other tales illustrated were: Arthur finding Excalibur, Morgan steals the sheath of Excalibur, The Death of Galahad (see lot 281), Lancelot and the four Queens (see lot 282), Merlin trapped under the Rock, Lancelot and Agravain (see lot 283)

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries November 1982- May 1983 No. 43: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 11th February 1940, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976