Fine Books & Manuscripts - Catalogue 89

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Original Watercolour For Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tale

16. The Dwarf’s Dream From A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde KING, Jessie Marion

[1915]. Original ink and watercolour, heightened in silver on vellum. 28cm x 21cm. Signed in full to the lower right hand corner. In very good condition. [42862] £18,500 This painting, in pastel shades of violet and sage green, is strikingly heightened with silver paint to the trunks of the silver birch trees and was used to illustrate the Oscar Wilde fairy story, The Birthday of the Infanta. LITERATURE: A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (Methuen, 1915). Opposite p.52.

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