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ALLAN DOUGLAS DAVIDSON, R.O.I., R.B.A. (BRITISH, 1873-1932)
An English Yum-Yum: my lady lights the sombre day: A scene from The Mikado
signed and dated 'Allan Davidson 1906' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 March 1996, lot 95.
with Pyms Gallery, London.
The Walid Juffali Collection, sold onsite at Bishopsgate House, Egham; Bonhams, London, 26 March 2018, lot 100.
Literature
H. Blackburn, ed., Academy Notes, London, 1906, pp. 20 & 34, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1906, no. 313.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The present picture belongs to a tradition going back to Whistler's Japanese subjects of the 1860s and '70s, by way of paintings inspired by visits to Japan by Whistler's pupil Mortimer Menpes (1887), Alfred East (1889) and the two 'Glasgow Boys', George Henry and E.A. Hornel (1893-4).
The picture's title is taken from Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy opera The Mikado, first staged in March 1885.

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