NIELSEN, Kay.

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Original artwork for In Powder and Crinoline: "A look - a kiss - and he was gone". Published in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of fairy tales, In Powder and Crinoline, in 1913, facing page 110. This is one of 26 colour plates in the book and accompanies the tale of "Rosanie, or The Inconstant Prince". The published plate is slightly cropped on the left margin, and the original blue of the tree on the right is printed in green.A review of the artist's debut exhibition at the Leicester Galleries described Nielsen as "a talented but eccentric artist" and noted that his "curiously fantastic pictures are forcible enough to be oppressive, though his designs, in which he is a follower of Aubrey Beardsley, are undoubtedly very fine pieces of decoration, and his colouring is remarkably delicate and effective" (The Academy). The original backing board is present with a clipping from the Leicester Galleries' catalogue, and two exhibition labels laid down."Nielsen shows in his development a fancy so delicate and an outlook so original that no charge of plagiarism can be brought against him. His colour work is delicate and suggestive rather than forceful" (Nicholson).Provenance: Leicester Galleries, November - December 1913, no. 19; Bearne's, "Other Worlds - an Exhibition of Illustrators' Works in the Realms of Fairies, Fantasy and the Future", 31 July - 11 August 1989, no. 53.

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