Description
Félix de Gray was a French portrait painter, illustrator and designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He contributed color illustrations of fairy tales and children’s stories in an Art Deco style to the periodicals Illustrated London News, The Tatler and Sketch from at least 1924 to 1933 and also created 12 color illustrations for a 1927 edition of Heinrich Heine’s 19th-century novel Florentine Nights.
Ealinor, 4
Inscription lower left: Argent et bleu tourquoise pale acier-mauves-rose-verts. [Silver and pale turquoise blue, steel-mauves-pink-greens.]
14.5 x 10.25 inches, overall
Lino, 19
Inscription lower left: Porte l’épée. Manchettes et jabot en dentelle. [Carries a sword. Cuffs and jabot in lace.]
12.25 x 9.5 inches, overall
Dominica, 20
Inscriptions: Une gouvernante. Gris-bleus, vieil or-mauve. [A governess. Gray-blues, old gold-mauve.]
13.75 x 10 inches, overall
[Untitled], 24
Inscriptions: Seul le corsage avec roses brodées. Trois tons de mauve-[illegible] l’echantillon. Roses: rose-thé. Vert veronèse. Dentelles argent. rubans in paillettes d’argent. chaussures: rose-thé, talons: argent. [Only the bodice with embroidered roses. Three shades of mauve [illegible] sample. Roses: tea rose. Veronese green. Silver lace. ribbons in silver sequins. Shoes: tea rose, heels: silver.]
15 x 10 inches, overall
Reference:
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 4, p. 401