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Auction archive: Lot number 17

The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,451 - US$3,268
Price realised:
£4,600
ca. US$7,518
Auction archive: Lot number 17

The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,451 - US$3,268
Price realised:
£4,600
ca. US$7,518
Beschreibung:

The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956 Four: Rene Bull, the famous Edwardian artist and book illustrator who was a War Artist and Correspondent for “Black & White” Magazine in the Tirah Expedition, at Omdurman and in the Boer War, prior to serving in the R.N.V.R. and R.N.A.S. during the Great War and finally dying aged 68 while employed at the Air Ministry during the 1939-45 War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. Rene Bull. “Black & White”); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. R. Bull, R.N.V.R.) rank officially corrected on War Medal; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, the first and last with edge bruises and polished, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1500-2000 Footnote M.I.D. London Gazette 26 April 1918: ‘for valuable services rendered whilst serving in the experimental section, Aircraft Depot, Dunkirk, during the period July 1916 to December 1917.’ Rene Bull was born in Ireland in 1872, probably in Dublin, to a British father and French mother, and a large part of his life was spent in France. While studying engineering in Paris he met the humorous illustrator Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poire) and, much inspired, he returned to London to study art in order to become an illustrator and artist. He swiftly became a popular illustrator, and his work appeared in many magazines ranging from The Illustrated London News to The Sketch. He also became a popular designer of comic postcards. Bull joined the staff of the Black & White news magazine, and quickly became known as one of Britain's most talented war artists. He was appointed "special correspondent" for the Black & White magazine and covered the Armenian massacres during the war in Greece, where he was captured by both the Turks and the Greeks! He went on to cover the Tirah campaign on the North West frontier of India (see Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull Vol. 3. Tirah), and the Omdurman campaign in the Sudan, where apparently he built a rostrum of bamboo poles in order to film the charge of the Dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. Unfortunately the movie camera broke down, so we have to be satisfied with his black and white snapshots. (see Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull Vol. 1. Khartoum, Vol. 2. Atbara). Finally, he was sent to cover the Boer War in South Africa. He was on the last train that left Ladysmith before the Boer siege began, and witnessed most of the major battles in Natal and on the Tugela. He was greatly influenced by Oriental art, and his travels to the Middle East gave him an insight into Arab customs and costume, which led to some of his greatest and most admired book illustrations, The Arabian Nights (1912) and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (1913). His Edwardian book illustrations included Jean de la Fontaine's Fables (1905) and Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus (1906). Rene Bull was a first class artist and a brilliantly comic illustrator. His version of The Arabian Nights is one of the best, no subject being beyond his imagination or wonderful comic invention. He was plagiarised in the U.S.A. when his small black and white line drawings, with which he decorated his chapter headings, were used by the U.S. publisher Dodd Mead in the E. J. Detmold edition of 1925 unacknowledged. His black and white drawings were also used without acknowledgement in an edition published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, in 1920. This edition included four inept colour plates with one paste-down on the cover, done in a grossly sentimental style by Adelaide H. Bolton. The ‘Sixty Illustrations’ were all taken from the original Rene Bull edition of 1912. The publication was repeated for schools in 1924 with the illustrator's name changed to Adeline H. Bolton. Bull illustrated dozens of books including, La Fontains Fables, 1905, The Russian Ballet, 1913, Carmen, 1940. In

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2011
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
Beschreibung:

The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956 Four: Rene Bull, the famous Edwardian artist and book illustrator who was a War Artist and Correspondent for “Black & White” Magazine in the Tirah Expedition, at Omdurman and in the Boer War, prior to serving in the R.N.V.R. and R.N.A.S. during the Great War and finally dying aged 68 while employed at the Air Ministry during the 1939-45 War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. Rene Bull. “Black & White”); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. R. Bull, R.N.V.R.) rank officially corrected on War Medal; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, the first and last with edge bruises and polished, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1500-2000 Footnote M.I.D. London Gazette 26 April 1918: ‘for valuable services rendered whilst serving in the experimental section, Aircraft Depot, Dunkirk, during the period July 1916 to December 1917.’ Rene Bull was born in Ireland in 1872, probably in Dublin, to a British father and French mother, and a large part of his life was spent in France. While studying engineering in Paris he met the humorous illustrator Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poire) and, much inspired, he returned to London to study art in order to become an illustrator and artist. He swiftly became a popular illustrator, and his work appeared in many magazines ranging from The Illustrated London News to The Sketch. He also became a popular designer of comic postcards. Bull joined the staff of the Black & White news magazine, and quickly became known as one of Britain's most talented war artists. He was appointed "special correspondent" for the Black & White magazine and covered the Armenian massacres during the war in Greece, where he was captured by both the Turks and the Greeks! He went on to cover the Tirah campaign on the North West frontier of India (see Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull Vol. 3. Tirah), and the Omdurman campaign in the Sudan, where apparently he built a rostrum of bamboo poles in order to film the charge of the Dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. Unfortunately the movie camera broke down, so we have to be satisfied with his black and white snapshots. (see Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull Vol. 1. Khartoum, Vol. 2. Atbara). Finally, he was sent to cover the Boer War in South Africa. He was on the last train that left Ladysmith before the Boer siege began, and witnessed most of the major battles in Natal and on the Tugela. He was greatly influenced by Oriental art, and his travels to the Middle East gave him an insight into Arab customs and costume, which led to some of his greatest and most admired book illustrations, The Arabian Nights (1912) and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (1913). His Edwardian book illustrations included Jean de la Fontaine's Fables (1905) and Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus (1906). Rene Bull was a first class artist and a brilliantly comic illustrator. His version of The Arabian Nights is one of the best, no subject being beyond his imagination or wonderful comic invention. He was plagiarised in the U.S.A. when his small black and white line drawings, with which he decorated his chapter headings, were used by the U.S. publisher Dodd Mead in the E. J. Detmold edition of 1925 unacknowledged. His black and white drawings were also used without acknowledgement in an edition published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, in 1920. This edition included four inept colour plates with one paste-down on the cover, done in a grossly sentimental style by Adelaide H. Bolton. The ‘Sixty Illustrations’ were all taken from the original Rene Bull edition of 1912. The publication was repeated for schools in 1924 with the illustrator's name changed to Adeline H. Bolton. Bull illustrated dozens of books including, La Fontains Fables, 1905, The Russian Ballet, 1913, Carmen, 1940. In

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2011
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
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