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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
La Pays du Souvenir (The Land of Memory)
1915
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
8 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches (217 x 168 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2297
Notes:
Title from a second drawing by this artist treating the same subject (see 1986.2296).
One of a series of drawings to illustrate a French edition of Maurice Maeterlinck's The blue bird (i.e. L'Oiseau bleu); completed by Robertson in 1915, but evidently never published. Cf. Letters from Graham Robertson / edited by Kerrison Preston. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953, p. 30-34.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows the children Mytyl and Tyltyl carrying a birdcage and walking towards an enormous tree trunk bearing the words "Pays du Souvenir", with an arrow pointing to the right.
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