Aboriginal Corroboree

Edward Roper (1830-1909)

Aboriginal Corroboree

watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
30.0 x 50.0 cm

signed lower left: E Roper signed and inscribed verso: "Big one Corroborree [sic]"/ A sort of festival amongst the Australian Blacks./ Copyright reserved/ Edward Roper

Provenance:

Private collection, United Kingdom

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 27 August 2007, lot 278

Private collection, Victoria

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Australian and New Zealand, American and Canadian Oil Painting and Water Colour Drawings, Burlington Gallery, London, 1886 Exhibition of Pictures of Our Colonies, Great Assembly Hall, London, 1893

Estimate: $15000 - 20000

Result Hammer: $17000