EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

Details

EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

The Snow Queen

signed and dated Edmund Dulac/10 lower right and inscribed Many a winter's night she flies through the streets (The Snow Queen) on the reverse--watercolor, gouache and pen and black ink on paper
12 3/8 x 9¾in. (31.4 x 24.8cm.)

Provenance

Lt. Col. Colin Campbell
Tenant Galleries, Los Angeles
Henry C. Kent, California
Clarence Paul and David Wilson, California

Literature

C. White, Edmund Dulac, New York, 1976, p. 200

Exhibited

Leicester Galleries, London, Edmund Dulac, Nov.-Dec. 1911, no. 1

Lot Essay

REPRODUCED
Stories from Hans Andersen with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1911, illustrated (p. 11)

'Many a Winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers'.

'In an ecstatic review, The Connoisseur acclaimed the Andersen drawings as the best the author had ever received, and praised the originality of conception, the draughtmanship, and the uncanny sense of involvement Dulac seemed to have with the time and place of the stories.'--C. White