Edmund Dulac | The Death of Galahad, 1939, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

The Death of Galahad, 1939

309 x 345mm. (frame 467x 488mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER LEFT, mounted, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1940 series of American Weekly covers, 'Seven Tales of Arthur's Court', published, 25th February 1940. The other tales illustrated were: Arthur finding Excalibur, Tristan and Isolde (see lot 280), Morgan steals the sheath of Excalibur, Lancelot and the four Queens (see lot 282), Merlin trapped under the Rock, and Lancelot and Agravain (see lot 283)

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries November 1982- May 1983, item no. 39: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 25th February 1940, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.178-9; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982