Sale 8656
New York, Park Avenue
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30 April 1997
Price realised
USD 8,625
Estimate
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.)
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Literature
American Weekly, 1 May 1932, cover illustration C. White, Edmund Dulac, London, 1976, p. 204
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.
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