Edmund Dulac | Ariadne and Bacchus, 1933, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Ariadne and Bacchus, 1933

314 x 287mm. (frame 558 x 504mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT, mounted, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration produced for the 1933 series of American Weekly covers, 'Myths the Ancients believed in', published 21st May 1933. The other myths include: Iris and the God of Sleep, Echo and Narcissus, Hercules and Hebe, Glaucus and Scylla, Pomona and Vertumnus, Diana and Actaeon, and Flora and Zephyr.

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982- May 1983, item no. 34: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Reproduced American Weekly, 21st May 1933, cover artwork; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield : Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 204