Chris Beetles Gallery

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Ballads in Prose – Death of the Dauphin

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price

£950

Signed

Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

4 x 6 ½ inches

Illustrated

Alphonse Daudet, Letters from my Windmill, London: Penguin, 1978, page 132

Exhibited

'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025

'In his little lace-trimmed bed, the little Dauphin, paler than the pillow beneath his head, is lying still. Though the little body lies straight and his eyes are closed, he is not sleeping…He turns his head towards his mother and sees that she is weeping. He says: ‘Madame, why are you weeping? Is it because you really believe I am going to die?’, page 131

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