EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

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EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

The Tempest: We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on

signed and dated EDMUND DULAC/08 lower left and inscribed NO 34/The Tempest/Prosp. We are such stuff/as dreams are made on.../Act IV. Sc. I v. 131 on the reverse--watercolor and gouache over traces of pencil
18¼ x 11in. (46.3 x 27.9cm.)

Provenance

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

Literature

C. White, Edmund Dulac, New York, 1976, pp. 49-50

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Edmund Dulac, Nov.-Dec. 1908, no. 9

Lot Essay

REPRODUCED
Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Soughton, London, 1908. Illustration opposite p. 86, illustrating text on p. 114, no. 26 in table of illustrations.

'...Dulac's greater assurance in The Tempest was manifested in many beautifully observed scenes...the extremely clever and difficult conception of We are such stuff as dreams are made on, showing the creation of the Universe from primaeval chaos, an example of pure, spontaneously felt painting which could not possibly have been done using tracings...'--C. White.