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Walford Graham Robertson
1866-1948
L'Adieu (The Leave Taking)
1915
8 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches (218 x 172 mm)
Black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.2308
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Title from second drawing by this artist showing the same subject (see 1986.2207).
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.
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.
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Fragment of a rejected watercolor drawing on verso.
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Century Drawings
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