Edmund Dulac

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Edmund Dulac
Ecole des Beaux Arts; Académie Julian
Known forPainter, illustrator
MovementOrientalist

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a

Queen Elizabeth II
's reign.

Early life and career

Dulac illustration "She had read all the newspapers" from "The Snow Queen" in Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, London, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 1911

Born in

Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1904 before moving to London.[1]

Dulac painting Mrs. Wellington Koo, circa 1921.

Settling in London's

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909) with 20 colour images; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
(1912) with 28 colour images and many monotone illustrations; and Princess Badoura (1913).

Dulac became a naturalised British citizen on 17 February 1912.[2]

During World War I he contributed to relief books, including

Queen of Romania
.

Dulac was married twice: Alice May de Marini, American (m. 1903; div.1904). Elsa Arnalice Bignardi (m.1911; sep. or div. 1924).[3][4][5]

After Dulac separated from his wife in 1924, he lived with British writer Helen Beauclerk until his death in 1953. Dulac frequently used her as a model for his illustrations, and illustrated her two novels, The Green Lacquer Pavilion (1926) and The Love of the Foolish Angel (1929).[3][4][6]

Later life

After the war, the deluxe edition illustrated book became a rarity and Dulac's career in this field was over. His last such books were Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book (1916), the Tanglewood Tales (1918) (including 14 colour images) and The Kingdom of the Pearl (1920). His career continued in other areas however, including newspaper caricatures (especially at The Outlook), portraiture, theatre costume and set design, bookplates, chocolate boxes, medals, and various graphics (especially for The Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate).

He also produced illustrations for

Hearst
newspaper chain in America and Britain's Country Life. Country Life Limited (London) published Gods and Mortals in Love (1935) (including 9 colour images) based on a number of the contributions made by Dulac to Country Life previously. The Daughter of the Stars (1939) was a further publication to benefit from Dulac's artwork - due to constraints related to the outbreak of World War II, that title included just 2 colour images. He continued to produce books for the rest of his life, more so than any of his contemporaries, although these were less frequent and less lavish than during the Golden Age.

Halfway through his final book commission (Milton's Comus), Dulac died of a heart attack on 25 May 1953 in London.

Stamp design

He designed

definitives and contributed designs for the sets of stamps issued to commemorate the 1948 Summer Olympics and the Festival of Britain.[8]

Dulac was one of the designers of the

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II[10]
but he died just before it was issued.

Dulac designed stamps (

zlotych note for the Bank of Poland
. This banknote (printed in England in 1942 but dated 1939) was ordered by the Polish Government in Exile and was never issued.

Books by Dulac

Illustration to "A Little Girl in a Book", from Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell[11]
  • Bronte, C. - The Novels of the Bronte Sisters, Dent 1905
  • Stawell, M. M. - Fairies I Have Met, Lane 1907
  • ____ Stories from the Arabian Nights, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1907
  • Dulac, E. - Lyrics, Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z, Warne 1908
  • Shakespeare, W. - The Tempest, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908
  • ____ The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909
  • Couch, A. T. Q. - The Sleeping Beauty, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910
  • ____ Ali Baba and other stories, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911
  • ____ The Magic Horse, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911
  • Andersen, H. C. - Stories from Hans Andersen, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911
  • Poe, E. A. - The Bells, and other poems, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912
  • ____ Princess Badoura, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913
  • Stawell, M. M. - My Days With the Fairies, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913
  • ____ Sindbad the Sailor and other stories, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914
  • Dulac, E. - Edmund Dulac's Picture Book, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1915
  • Mary, Queen of Roumania The Dreamer of Dreams, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1915
  • Dulac, E. - Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1916
  • Hawthorne, N. - Tanglewood Tales, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1918
  • Rosenthal, L. - The Kingdom of the Pearl, Nisbet 1920
  • Yeats, W. B. - Four Plays for Dancers, Macmillan 1921
  • Beauclerk, H. de V. - The Green Lacquer Pavilion, Collins 1926
  • Yeats, W. B. - A Vision, Laurie 1926
  • Stevenson, R. L. - Treasure Island, Benn 1927
  • ____ A Fairy Garland, Cassell 1928
  • Williamson, H. R. - Gods and Mortals in Love, Country Life 1935
  • Cary, M. - The Daughter of the Stars, Hatchard 1939
  • Milton, J. - Comus, Limited Edition Club, Cambridge 1949
  • Alexander Pushkin, - The Golden Cockerel, The Heritage Press, published in 1950. Dulac wrote the version in English of Pushkin's tale used in the book. In addition to the illustrations, he designed the layout of the book, page by page.

Gallery

  • Ottoman Bank logo, 1947
    Ottoman Bank logo, 1947
  • Dulac designed 1953 coronation stamp denominated 1/3
    Dulac designed 1953 coronation stamp denominated 1/3
  • title ornament for Edmund Dulac's picture-book for the French Red Cross, 1916.
    title ornament for Edmund Dulac's picture-book for the French Red Cross, 1916.
  • illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"
    illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"
  • illustration for Andersen's "The Nightingale"
    illustration for Andersen's "The Nightingale"

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Edmund Dulac Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Colin White Edmund Dulac, Studio Vista 1976 p.52
  3. ^ a b "George.W.Lambert Retrospective:heroes and icons | George LAMBERT | Miss Helen Beauclerk". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Edmund Dulac". www.nndb.com. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  5. ISBN 9780684147918
    .
  6. ^ "Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) – Beauclerk, Helen". sf-encyclopedia.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  7. The British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original
    on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  8. ISBN 0-85259-443-7
    .
  9. ^ Royal Mail (2003). The Wilding Definitive Collection II. Royal Mail.
  10. ISBN 1428661735
    .
  11. ^ Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph. Fairies I have met … illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York: Hodder and Stoughton.

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