ARCHER, c.1897
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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
Related works
Archers, illus. in Menpes, D., Japan: A Record In Colour, Adam and Charles Black, London, 1901, pl. 35, p. 69