Watercolour by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen sells for £32,000A “very rare” watercolour illustrating Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale approximately the nightingale that sings for the Emperor of China has been sold at auction to an American collector for £32000.
By the acclaimed Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen, the image was painted in 1923 to illustrate The Nightingale in a collection of Andersen’s stories published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1924. Works by Nielsen, and who is also known for his illustrations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales but who died in poverty in 1957,are very rare, according to Chris Albury at Dominic Winter Auctioneers. Dominic Winter, and which is auctioning the portray,called Nielsen “one of the greatest illustrators of the golden age of book design and illustration in the first half of the 20th century”.
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Source: theguardian.com