AN ENDURING MAGIC
5. “List, ah list to the zephyr in the grove” An Original Watercolour from “In Powder and Crinoline” NIELSEN, Kay
[1913]. Original pen, ink, watercolour and wash heightened with gold and graphite. 270x310mm. Signed and dated ([19]13) in the lower left corner. A fine, beautifully characteristic piece in excellent condition with a couple of faint spots in the yellow sky. Mounted and framed. [35261] £50,000 “Nielsen shows in his development a fancy so delicate and an outlook so original that no charge of plagiarism can be brought against him. His colour work is delicate and suggestive rather than forceful. Very lovely is its faint blues and greens with tones of peach is the illustration plate 21 [i.e. this painting] where the high folly, the love birds and the blossom testify to the legacy of Japan.” - Keith Nicholson (Kay Nielsen, 1975) Nielsen produced 26 watercolours for In Powder & Crinoline to illustrate seven fairy tales chosen by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. This watercolour illustrates the story, “Felicia or The Pot of Pinks”. LITERATURE: In Powder and Crinoline edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Hodder & Stoughton, 1913), p.52.
6. In Powder And Crinoline Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch NIELSEN, Kay [illus.]
Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 500 copies, printed on large handmade paper and signed by the art- ist, this copy issued out of series. Original green-stained vellum, elaborately titled and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, others un- cut, with silk green ties. Housed in a custom made fleece-lined green slipcase with matching silk green pull. Twenty-six colour tipped in plates, mounted on grey art paper with decorated bor- ders, under captioned tissue guards. Text printed in grey with floral headpieces on each page. Chapter headers and tailpieces by Nielsen in line. A fine copy of a most beautiful book, the cov- ers bright with only some light rubbing to the corners, in a fine slipcase. A magnificent copy. [43036] £5,000 Nielsen’s first commission, remaining one of the most beautiful books to come out of the “Golden Age” of book illustration. This deluxe edition contains two extra plates not present in the trade edition.
7. Cinderella Retold by C.S. Evans RACKHAM, Arthur [illus.]
William Heinemann, 1919. First edition illustrated by Rackham. 4to. Pictorial boards with silhouette style illustration in the orig- inal dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. Tipped in colour frontis, three double page silhouette drawings in colour and silhouette illustrations by Rackham throughout A very good copy indeed, bright and clean, with just a short closed tear to the lower edge of the frontispiece mount. The dustwrapper, which is in nearly very good condition is clean, but somewhat worn at the spine ends. [45753] £300
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