Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 285. Edmund Dulac | The Genie Dahnash, 1949/50, signed by the artist.

Original illustrations from the collection of the late Colin White

Edmund Dulac | The Genie Dahnash, 1949/50, signed by the artist

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseMargin Scheme

Lot Closed

July 11, 02:40 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edmund Dulac


The Genie Dahnash, 1949/50


281 x 253mm. (frame 538 x 491mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT, mounted, framed and glazed, some foxing to mount


Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1950/1 series of American Weekly covers, 'The Arabian Nights', published 31st December 1950. The other stories include: Princess Badoura dressed as the Prince, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri-Banon, Prince Ahmed finds the Enchantress, The Sack of Gold (see lot 286), and Dancing Girl with the Knife (see lot 287)


This was the final series of illustrations that Dulac was to have published by American Weekly. Whilst working on the following series (see lots 288-290), Dulac was informed that due to the change from letterpress to retrograuve printing the editorial policy on magazine covers had changed and the company could not commit to any further artwork covers


PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White


EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 47: label to verso


LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 31st December 1950, cover artwork; Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 167

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