MORTIMER MENPES
1855-1938
A Hawksman of Rajgarh (1903)
$30,000–50,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ADELAIDE
MORTIMER MENPES
1855-1938
A Hawksman of Rajgarh (1903)
oil on board
signed ‘Mortimer Menpes’ lower right
41 x 33 cm
frame: original, M. van Menk, Amsterdam
- Lot Sold $80,000 (Hammer Price)
- $98,182 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Mortimer Menpes, London
Dowdeswell Galleries, London (label verso)
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Exploration, Travel & Topographical Pictures, Bonhams, London, 13 December 2006, lot 377, illustrated
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide
Private Collection, Adelaide, acquired from the above
Private Collection, Adelaide, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Mortimer Menpes: The Durbar, Dowdeswell Galleries, London, June 1903, no. 25
The World of Mortimer Menpes, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 13 June – 7 September 2014, illustrated
Literature
Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes, The Durbar, Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903, plate 82, pp. 170-171
Julie Robinson, The World of Mortimer Menpes: Painter, Etcher, Raconteur, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 172 (illustrated), 198, 239
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