Search results for: 'NIELSEN, Kay.'
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original watercolour: "List, ah list to the zephyr in the grove."1913
An original watercolour, signed and dated "Kay Nielsen 1913" in the lower left corner, for In Powder and Crinoline, a collection of seven fairy tales chosen by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. This watercolour illustrates the story "Felicia or The Pot of Pinks" and appears at p. 52: "Nielsen shows in his development a fancy so delicate and an outlook so original... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 111943
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original copperplates for In Powder and Crinoline;[1913]
Original copperplates made for the four-colour separation process used to produce the final image published opposite p. 20, the first illustration in the book (excluding the frontispiece). This remarkable survival shows Nielsen's painstaking artistic technique in building up the four-colour process (Rackham used a three-colour process) to produce the... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29626
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original copperplates for In Powder and Crinoline;[1913]
Original copperplates made for the four-colour separation process used to produce the final image published opposite p. 148 in the book. This remarkable survival shows Nielsen's painstaking artistic technique in building up the four-colour process (Rackham used a three-colour process) to produce the rich and complex illustrations for his deluxe books.... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29627
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original copperplates for In Powder and Crinoline;[1913]
Original copperplates made for the four-colour separation process used to produce the final image published opposite p. 52 in the book. This remarkable survival shows Nielsen's painstaking artistic technique in building up the four-colour process (Rackham used a three-colour process) to produce the rich and complex illustrations for his deluxe books.... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29635
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original copperplates for In Powder and Crinoline;[London : [1913]
Original copperplates made for the four-colour separation process used to produce the final image published opposite p. 100 in the book. This remarkable survival shows Nielsen's painstaking artistic technique in building up the four-colour process (Rackham used a three-colour process) to produce the rich and complex illustrations for his deluxe books.... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29625
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original copperplates for In Powder and Crinoline;[1913]
Original copperplates made for the four-colour separation process used to produce the final image published opposite p. 110 in the book. This remarkable survival shows Nielsen's painstaking artistic technique in building up the four-colour process (Rackham used a three-colour process) to produce the rich and complex illustrations for his deluxe books.... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 29631
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans. Fairy Tales.London : [1924]
First trade edition, first impression, of one of the most beautiful editions of Andersen's fairy tales, work for which Nielsen had begun in 1912. "Though Dulac only indirectly used Art Nouveau, Kay Nielsen, the Danish artist, combined the bizarre side of the movement and its exquisite motifs, as used by Beardsley, with oriental influences in pattern... Learn More£1,400.00Stock Code: 115524
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the illustrator on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Miss Bernadine Murphy with my kindest regards, Kay Nielsen, April 1947". Loosely inserted is a one-page autograph letter signed by Nielsen to the book's owner and dated October 10, 1948. Nielsen thanks Murphy for what seems to have been her attempt... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 79481
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
Deluxe edition, number 85 of 500 copies signed by the artist. With the single-leaf printed advertisement for the exhibition of the original watercolours in November and December 1914 at the Leicester Galleries laid in. Learn More£19,500.00Stock Code: 47331
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 83 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 114031
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 5 of 500 copies signed by the artist. The richness of the Danish Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilised... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 106880
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.New York : [1922]
First US edition in this format, first printing; Doran had also published a large format edition in 1914. The richness of the Danish Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 118558
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
First Nielsen edition, trade issue. The richness of the Danish artist Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilized a traditional three-colour... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 138810
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans. Fairy Tales.London : [1924]
Signed limited edition, number 412 of 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist. This is the cloth issue, with an unstated part of the edition issued in vellum. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 126520
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolgang von. Eventyret Das Märchen.Copenhagen : 1949
First edition with Nielsen's illustrations, number 307 of 350 copies. Goethe's fairy tale was first published in 1795, and is here translated into Norwegian by Ernst Sørensen, who also contributes the introduction. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 130180
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
First trade edition of Nielsen's first gift book. An article in the 1913 Christmas Bookman recommending this work describes Nielsen as "a young artist of curiously original gifts. There are traces in his drawings for In Powder and Crinoline of the influence of Aubrey Beardsley, and there are also an imaginative daring, a fantasy, a fascinating grace... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138114
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Deluxe signed limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 21928
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 14754
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 45, signed by the artist. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117368
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); WILSON, Romer, ed. Red Magic.London : 1930
First edition, first impression - preceding the first US edition by a year - of the final work that Nielsen was to fully illustrate, in the very uncommon dust jacket. Red Magic is the last in a series of three collections of fairy tales arranged by Florence Wilson, using her pseudonym Romer Wilson. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 143244
