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Hindu Dancer Costume design Illustration for Aladdin

Creator: Kay Nielsen
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Nielsen (Kay) Costume design for Hindu Dancer, Aladdin, pencil, watercolour, heightened with gold, thick gold border, 205 x 103 mm (8 1/8 x 4 1/8 in), soft crease to lower right corner, minor spotting and surface dirt, framed without glass, [circa 1917-1919] unsigned
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Colin White
Literature:
White, Colin, Kay Nielsen: A Biography, forthcoming, fig. 125, and discussed on pp. 147-151
"The story of Aladdin was an invitation to a designer to lose himself in fantasy and dreams. 'Colouring and gold almost bordering on debauchery' commented The Studio on seeing some of the original studies for the costumes. Nielsen's method of costume design was very different from that of Edmund Dulac.... Nielsen was less meticulous about his preparatory work.... He knew instinctively what was important and what could be omitted in a design" [Colin White, op. cit.]

More Information

Documentation:	Ample Provenance
Origin:	Denmark
Period:	1900-1919
Materials:	Watercolor, Gold Metalic Paint, Gouache on Paper
Condition:	Good. Overall, good condition for a work 118 years old. Some surface conditions. soft crease to lower right corner, minor spotting and surface dirt, framed without glass,
Creation Date:	1917 -1919
Styles / Movements:	Post Impressionism, Surrealism, Illustration
Incollect Reference #:	858027

Dimensions

W.	4.13 in;	H.	8.25 in;
W.	10.49 cm;	H.	20.96 cm;

Message from Seller:

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