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Edmund Dulac.

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15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edmund Dulac
  • "To --- --- (Mrs. Marie Louise Shew)"
  • INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING ON PAPER/BOARD
372 by 272mm., pencil and watercolour drawing, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, November - December 1912, number 29

Catalogue Note

Reproduced as the twenty-second of twenty-eight colour plates within Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells and other poems (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912). The watercolour accompanies the poem 'To ---- ----' (identified as Mrs Marie Louise Shew).

Alas, I cannot feel; for 'tis not feeling,
This standing motionless upon the golden
Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams.