SCHEHERAZADE PRINT BOOK PLATE ARABIAN NIGHTS 1923 DULAC FRONTISPIECE ART NOUVEAU

Description: SCHEHERAZADE BOOK PLATE ARABIAN NIGHTS EDMUND DULAC ART NOUVEAU 1923 HEROINE The frontispiece illustration of Scheherazade, the heroine of the Thousand and One Nights, is striking. The design of the pure white peacock is reflected in the pattern of her dress. She’s bejeweled and beguiling! The book’s antique 1923 paper page is tanned. The art print was made to be removable for framing. This print has a short crease on the bottom right. It flares up a bit from the page but is smooth and would be gorgeous framed. Because Scheherazade was the frontispiece, it has a caption below print which measures 6 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches. The book page is 6 x 8 3/4 inches. See photos. Title: Stories from the Arabian Nights Publisher: George H. Doran Co., New York Publication Date: 1923 I HAVE MORE DULAC BOOK PLATE PRINTS FOR SALE IN MY STORE. Dulac (1882–1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. An illustrated version of the Arabian classic, Dulac's watercolors capture the spirit of the stories of Scheherazade. With these types of illustrations, children’s books became items of beauty that adults collected as emblems of affluence and good taste. A new technology of color separation made it cheaper to print color book plates, resulting in a genre of gift books where tipped on color plates were placed between pages as “gifts” rather than being bound into the spine. Dulac was dominant in this genre—as a colorist fascinated with pigments, patterns and Eastern traditions. Bright jewel patterns that radiated and sparkled fired his imagination. He was drawn toward mysticism, the occult and exotic. Since art school, he’d been fascinated by the East and Arabic languages, intrigued by written Arabic characters. Nocturnal scenes in The Arabian Nights let him use rich blues—ultramarine, Prussian blue, indigo, violets and purples—creating magical, translucent textures, starry nights sparkling with saturated watercolor pigments. The watercolor book plates were reproduced in yellow, red and blue inks, which were overlaid onto a black key plate. Dulac’s suffused watercolor technique was well-suited for this. In reproduction, the initial ink drawing was covered by three successive layers of printing inks, muting the ink line into one that was no longer truly black. This process enhanced Dulac’s soft illustrations and contributed to his renown as a colorist. His palette moved from blues to a bold, orientally influenced range of colors. His watercolors had dreamlike atmospheres, adding mystery and magic. Shipped bagged and boarded via USPS Ground Advantage

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