FLOWERING FARADAYA SPLENDIDA WITH BUTTERFLY, 1889

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
103

ELLIS ROWAN

(1848 – 1922)
FLOWERING FARADAYA SPLENDIDA WITH BUTTERFLY, 1889

watercolour and gouache on paper

73.5 x 53.5 cm (sight)

signed lower left: Ellis Rowan
dated and inscribed verso: 2nd trip 89

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $28,060 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

M.H. de Young, San Francisco, USA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA, a gift from the above
Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 4 (as ‘Untitled’)
Company collection, Sydney