Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Caricature of Ivan Mestrovitch

Details

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
Caricature of Ivan Mestrovitch
signed and dated 'Edmund/Dulac/'15.' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Edmund Dulac/72 Ladbroke Road/Holland Park/No.4 Ivan Mestrovitch' (on a label attached to the reverse)
pen, brush, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour
11½ x 12¼ in. (29.2 x 31 cm.)

Provenance

Edmund Davis.

Literature

C. White, Edmund Dulac, London, 1976, p.76.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Watercolours by Edmund Dulac, October- November 1915 (ex catalogue).

Lot Essay

The subject of this caricature Ivan Mestrovitch (1883-1962) was a Serbian sculptor of saints and contemporary figures such as Herbert Hoover, Thomas Masaryk, Pope Pius XI and Lenin.
(see J. Mackay, A Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Suffolk, 1977, p.261).

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