Chris Beetles Gallery

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Isidore De Lara

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Price

£8,500

Signed

Signed, inscribed 'Apollon Isidoros' in Greek and dated 1917
Signed, dedicated 'To S A Serenissime Madame La
Princesse de Monaco' and dated 1917 below mount

Medium

Watercolour with bodycolour

Dimensions

13 ½ x 9 ¾ inches

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1871-2022', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November-December 2022, no 82

In 1892 the song writer Isidore de Lara was praised for his opera, The Light of Asia. Seven years later he dedicated another opera, Messaline, to the Princess of Monaco.

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