Edmund Dulac | The room of fruits prepared for Abu-l-Hasan, 1914, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

"The room of fruits prepared for Abu-l-Hasan", 1914

360 x 251 mm.(frame 646 x 530mm.), watercolour, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST to LOWER RIGHT ("14"), framed and glazed

Original illustration for 'the Sleeper Awakened' in Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914

For another original illustration for the same work, see lot 266

PROVENANCE:

Purchased from from The Leicester Galleries December 1915: purchase note to verso of frame; Collection of Donald and Barbara Dean [1976]; from the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915, Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac. no. 13: "Ernest Brown & Phillips: The Leicester Galleries" label to verso | Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 25: label to verso | Dulwich Picture Galleries, 28 November 2007-17 February 2008, no. 117

LITERATURE:

Sinbad the sailor and other stories from the Arabian nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914, p.216; Exhibition of watercolour drawings illustrating 'The Arabian Nights' and the Queen of Roumania's fairy tales, by Edmund Dulac, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, November-December 1915; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 69; Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982; The age of enchantment : Beardsley, Dulac and their contemporaries, 1890-1930, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, [2007]