Mortimer Menpes
(1855 - 1938)
ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES, JAPAN, c.1901 – 02
gouache and pencil on board
41.0 x 32.5 cm
signed lower right: Mortimer Menpes
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Sold:
$26,840 (inc. BP)
lot details
Private collection
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1991
Exhibited
Original Paintings Executed for Japan, World Pictures, Durbar, War Impressions and World’s Children, A. & C. Black, London, November 1903, cat. 58
The World of Mortimer Menpes: Painter, Etcher, Raconteur, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 13 June – 7 September 2014
Literature
Menpes, D., World’s Children, Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904, pl. 90, p. 218 (illus.)
Robinson, J., The World of Mortimer Menpes: Painter, Etcher, Raconteur, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 170, 171 (illus.), 172, 198