Dulac, Edmund | Caricature of John Singer Sargent in his studio

Dulac, Edmund

Caricature of John Singer Sargent

Watercolor and ink (to sight: 350 x 285 mm), matted, glazed, and framed (622 x 521 mm), signed at upper right (“Edmund Dulac”); mat with light darkening at lower edge, not examined out of frame.

Edmund Dulac produced this caricature of John Singer Sargent for Martin Birnbaum, the dealer and critic who championed both artists in the United States. Birnbaum reproduced the drawing in his study The Last Romantic: The Story of More Than a Half-Century in the World of Art (1960).

PROVENANCE

Martin Birnbaum (1878–1970), art dealer, critic, and an important advocate for European artists in the United States; by bequest to his life partner Joseph Lechner; by descent to the present owners