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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 295. [Kay Nielsen] | Costume design for The Jewel Bearer, Aladdin, 1917-1919.

Original illustrations from the collection of the late Colin White

[Kay Nielsen] | Costume design for The Jewel Bearer, Aladdin, 1917-1919

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseMargin SchemeArtist's Resale Right

Lot Closed

July 11, 02:50 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

[Kay Nielsen]


Costume Design for The Jewel Bearer, Aladdin, 1917-1919


240 x 130mm. (frame 540 x 437mm.), pencil and gouache, heightened with gold, framed and glazed


"The story of Aladdin was an invitation to a designer to lose himself in fantasy and dreams. 'Colouring and gold almost bordering on debauchery' commented The Studio on seeing some of the original studies for the costumes. Nielsen's method of costume design was very different from that of Edmund Dulac.... Nielsen was less meticulous about his preparatory work.... He knew instinctively what was important and what could be omitted in a design" (White).


PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White


LITERATURE:

reproduced in Colin White, Kay Nielsen: A Biography, forthcoming, fig.123, and discussed on pp. 147-151

This lot is subject to the Artist’s Resale Right

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