Edmund Dulac (French, 1882-1953)
Edmund Dulac (French, 1882-1953)

Prince Ivan and the Chestnut Horse

Details
Edmund Dulac (French, 1882-1953)
Prince Ivan and the Chestnut Horse
signed 'Edmund Dulac' lower right and inscribed 'Fairyland Lovers Ivan and the Chestnut Horse' on the reverse
watercolor and gouache over traces of pencil on paperboard
12 x 11¼in. (30.5 x 29.6cm.)
Literature
American Weekly, 1 May 1932, cover illustration
C. White, Edmund Dulac, London, 1976, p. 204

Lot Essay

Prince Ivan and the Chestnut Horse was a subject that Dulac had first depicted in his book Dulac's Fairy Book, published in 1916 by Hodder and Stoughton in London. Dulac revisited the story for this drawing for the 1 May 1932 cover of American Weekly and included it as part of the series for that year entitled Enchanting Fairyland Lovers.