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SUSAN BEATRICE PEARSE.
Dreamland. Mixed media with acrylic, wash, and watercolor on board. 458x356 mm;
18x14 inches. Cover for the January 1913 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal. Unsigned
but with remnants of original LHJ label on contemporary paper attached to verso. Image
bright and clean with strong color, but removed from frame which darkened and eroded
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-inch perimeter of recto and lower quarter of the board recto; publisher’s notes on verso.
A copy of the Ladies’ Home Journal issue accompanies the lot.
[4,000/6,000]
A strikingly beautiful work by British illustrator Pearse, best known for her Ameliaranne series
published by George Harrap between 1920 and 1950.