ARCHER, c.1897

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
63

MORTIMER MENPES

(1855 – 1938)
ARCHER, c.1897

watercolour and gouache on paper on card

 

29.5 x 22.5 cm

signed lower right: Mortimer Menpes
artist’s gilt fluted frame with floral motif corners

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $73,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

probably: Dowdeswell Galleries, London
Private collection, London
Bonhams, London, 25 June 2014, lot 54 (as ‘The Archer’)
Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited

probably: Mortimer Menpes: Paintings and Drawings of Japan, Dowdeswell Galleries, London, May – June 1897