Edmund Dulac

Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sale: Christie's New York, October 26, 1988, lot 428, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale

Art Directors Club, Inc., Second Annual Exhibition, New York, 1922 (as Calendar)

The Second Annual of Illustrations for Advertisements in the United States, exh. cat.,  New York, 1923, p. 55 (as Calendar)
Colin White, Edmund Dulac, London, 1976, p. 97, pl. 66

This is a work on illustration board, with remnants of old adhesive at the top and bottom edge (not visible when framed), and slightly light struck. There is also minor spots of foxing at the top, under the mat.
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This present suite of works were likely commissioned from Edmund Dulac by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company of Pittsburgh. Engravings were made after these original works and used in a 1922 calendar that the company likely gave to their customers. They were packaged in a box with blue satin ribbon and a Dulac zodiac design in brown and gilt on tan. The calendars are still regarded as the rarest item of Dulac material.