woodblock illustrations, Chinese preface printed in green with vignette of Qi Baishi at work. 1956 birthday inscription in blue ink on front free endpaper. Brocade clean and bright, album lightly bumped at lower-right corner, trace of soiling to edges. A near-fine copy. ¶ Dorothy Perkins, Encyclopedia of China: History and Culture , 2013. £2,250 [157456] 119 RACKHAM, Arthur. “Santa Claus” [c.1920] apparently unpublished original artwork The style of this original watercolour and the stock of artist’s board suggests that it dates from the 1910s or 1920s. Publication in book form is, however, currently untraced. Rackham provided illustrations to an edition of Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas in 1931. The present illustration is not one of the four coloured plates. Original drawing (248 × 177 mm) on artist’s board (260 × 177 mm with “Smith’s Specially Prepared Boards” printed on reverse), fine ink and watercolour, signed (“Arthur Rackham”) lower right, with “Santa Claus” and artist’s signature on reverse, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 434 × 345 mm). Fine and unfaded. £50,000 [154997]
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