Edmund Dulac | Lancelot and the four queens, c.1939, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Lancelot and the four queens, c.1939

307 x 345mm. (frame 500 x 516mm.), 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 3rd March 1940.. The other tales illustrated were: Arthur finding Excalibur, Tristan and Isolde (see lot 280), Morgan steals the sheath of Excalibur, The Death of Galahad (see lot 281), 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, no. 40: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 3rd March 1940, cover artwork; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976