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:
$73,200 (inc. BP)
lot details
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
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