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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
Le Temple de la Lumière (The Temple of Light)
1915
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
8 9/16 x 6 11/16 inches (219 x 171 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2302
Notes:
Title from second drawing by this artist of the same subject (see 1986.2301).
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 behind the trailing skirt of Light.
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