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Lot 140

NIELSEN (KAY)
'Prince Bismarck discovering the soldier', from "In Powder and Crinoline", 1913

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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NIELSEN (KAY)

'Prince Bismarck discovering the soldier', from "In Powder and Crinoline", ink and watercolour, on artist's board, signed and dated ("Kay Nielsen 1913") upper right, image 310 x 270mm., 1913

Footnotes

Fine watercolour used as an illustration to the story "The Czarina's Violet" in Arthur Quiller-Couch's In Powder and Crinoline.

Exhibited: The Leicester Galleries, 'Kay Nielsen', December 1913, item 30, labels on verso of frame.

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