EDMUND DULAC (1882-1953) "The Lady Bedr-el-Budur."
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EDMUND DULAC (1882-1953)
"The Lady Bedr-el-Budur." Illustration published in Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]). Watercolor, gouache, pen, and ink on paper. 315x254 mm; 12½x10 inches, image, on 14¾x11¼ inch-sheet. Signed "Edmund Dulac" in lower right corner, penciled caption "No. 12 Princess Bad youlbedour [sic]." Tipped to window matte and framed to 20x17½. Remnant of original backing with Leicester Galleries label mounted to current frame back. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, London, 1910, catalogue 131, no. 28.Dulac's first foray into illustrating stories from the Arabian Nights was in 1907. With his detailed realism combined with a mysterious exoticism, Dulac blended Orientalism with the contemporary Art Deco. His exhibition at Leicester Galleries in 1910 cemented his status as a fashionable exotic artist of the day.
"The Lady Bedr-el-Budur." Illustration published in Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]). Watercolor, gouache, pen, and ink on paper. 315x254 mm; 12½x10 inches, image, on 14¾x11¼ inch-sheet. Signed "Edmund Dulac" in lower right corner, penciled caption "No. 12 Princess Bad youlbedour [sic]." Tipped to window matte and framed to 20x17½. Remnant of original backing with Leicester Galleries label mounted to current frame back. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, London, 1910, catalogue 131, no. 28.Dulac's first foray into illustrating stories from the Arabian Nights was in 1907. With his detailed realism combined with a mysterious exoticism, Dulac blended Orientalism with the contemporary Art Deco. His exhibition at Leicester Galleries in 1910 cemented his status as a fashionable exotic artist of the day.
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EDMUND DULAC (1882-1953) "The Lady Bedr-el-Budur."
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