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Original illustrations from the collection of the late Colin White

Edmund Dulac | The Nativity and study for The Nativity, 1944, signed by the artist

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Edmund Dulac


The Nativity and study for The Nativity, 1944


The Nativity: diameter 158mm, (frame 410 x 338mm.), and study diameter, 153mm, (frame 370 x 332mm.), watercolour and gouache, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST ("44"), framed and glazed separately


This scene was produced for the Girl Guides Association Christmas card in 1944. Dulac gifted the gouache of the nativity to his friend the American artist Henry Winslow (1875-1953), who let Dulac and Helen stay in his house in St John's Wood after they found their studio at Ladbroke Road flooded after the war.


PROVENANCE:

Henry Winslow (1875-1953); from the collection of the late Colin White


EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983 item no. 69 (study) and 44: labels to versos


LITERATURE:

Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.163, 184, 188; Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982

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