Edmund Dulac | Keep thee from evil women, 1951, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Keep thee from evil women, 1951

285 x 251mm. (frame 556 x 502mm.), watercolour, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST TO LOWER RIGHT, mounted, framed and glazed, frame slightly bumped

Original watercolour illustration produced for the planned, but unpublished series of American Weekly covers, 'The Book of Proverbs', illustrating Proverbs 6:24.

Whilst producing his series watercolours to illustrate 'The Book of Proverbs' for American Weekly, Dulac hear that they would not commit to any further magazine covers beyond The Arabian Nights. At this point only four of the proverbs had been completed, including 'Keep thee from evil women' (see lot 289), and 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith'.

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, no 50: label to verso

LITERATURE:

Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p.192-193; Edmund Dulac : illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982