EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

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EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

In the Garden of the Summer Palace all was Silence and Solitude
signed and dated Edmund Dulac/07 lower right--watercolor, gouache and pen and black ink on paper
16¼ x 8¾in. (41.3 x 22.2cm.)
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, pp. 25-29, 36, 42, 200
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Edmund Dulac, Nov.-Dec. 1907, no. 7

Lot Essay

REPRODUCED
Stories from the Arabian Nights re-told by Laurence Housman with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, no. 32, illustrating text on p. 85

This drawing is an illustration from the story of The Magic Horse. It bears the caption 'In the Garden of the Summer Palace/All was Silence and Solitude'. In the 'List of Illustrations' it is number 33, and in the book it is actually number 32.