Beschreibung:

[Kay Nielsen]
Costume Design for The Jewel Bearer, Aladdin, 1917-1919
240 x 130mm. (frame 540 x 437mm.), pencil and gouache, heightened with gold, framed and glazed
"The story of Aladdin was an invitation to a designer to lose himself in fantasy and dreams. 'Colouring and gold almost bordering on debauchery' commented The Studio on seeing some of the original studies for the costumes. Nielsen's method of costume design was very different from that of Edmund Dulac ... Nielsen was less meticulous about his preparatory work.... He knew instinctively what was important and what could be omitted in a design" (White).
PROVENANCE:From the collection of the late Colin White
LITERATURE:reproduced in Colin White, Kay Nielsen: A Biography, forthcoming, fig.123, and discussed on pp. 147-151