Edmund Dulac | Original illustration for The Arabian Nights ("Taking her hand..."), 1907, signed by the artist

Dulac, Edmund

"Taking her hand he led her to the apartment of Queen Pirouze", 1907

250 x 305mm. (frame 554 x 584mm.), watercolour, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT ("07") lower right, mounted, framed and glazed, some minor spotting to mount

Original watercolour for 'The Wicked Half-brother' in Stories from The Arabian Nights, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1907

For another original illustration for the same work, see lot 261

PROVENANCE:

Purchased from The Leicester Galleries by J Strain Esq.[?] in December 1907: purchase note to verso of frame; Bonhams, 15th June 2016, Lot 131; from the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Leicester Galleries, November-December 1907, no.16: "Ernest Brown & Phillips: The Leicester Galleries" label | Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, no.12: label to verso | Sotheby's Childhood: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art, Sotheby's 2-27th January 1988, no.725

LITERATURE:

Stories from the Arabian Nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1907; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Water-colour drawings illustrating stories from "The Arabian Nights", By Edmund Dulac, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, London, November-December 1907; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 35.; Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982