Chris Beetles Gallery

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John Singer Sargent

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Price

£27,500

Signed

Signed and dated 1915

Medium

Watercolour

Dimensions

13 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches

Provenance

Martin Birnbaum (1878–1970), art dealer, critic, and an important advocate for European artists in the United States; by bequest to his life partner Joseph Lechner; by descent

Literature

Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic: The Story of More Than a Half-Century in the World of Art, New York: Twayne, 1960, page 137

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1807-2026' Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2026-January 2027, no 73

Edmund Dulac produced this caricature of John Singer Sargent for Martin Birnbaum, the dealer and critic who championed both artists in the United States. Birnbaum reproduced the drawing in his study The Last Romantic: The Story of More Than a Half-Century in the World of Art (1960).

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