Lot 32
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Henry Holiday (1839-1927)
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Henry Holiday (1839-1927)

Illustration for Wagner's Centenary programme at the Royal Albert Hall, 1913: 'The Ride of the Valkyries'

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Henry Holiday (1839-1927)
Illustration for Wagner's Centenary programme at the Royal Albert Hall, 1913: 'The Ride of the Valkyries'
signed 'Henry Holiday' (lower right) and inscribed 'Die Walkure.' (lower left, in a cartouche)
pencil, pen and brown ink, within the artist's pen and ink border, on paper
12 ½ x 9 3/8 in. (31.7 x 23.7 cm.)
Literature
Henry Holiday, Reminiscences of my Life, London, 1914, illustrated p. 377.

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Lot Essay

Holiday describes in his autobiography (op.cit., pp. 372-3) how in 1894, Herr Alfred Schulz-Curtius asked him to design the programmes for a series of concerts given at the Queen's Hall. They included a frontispiece of the nine Muses for the outside and scenes from Wagner's operas for the inside. These drawings were also used to illustrate the programmes of the Wagner Centenary Concerts at the Albert Hall, 1913.

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