Edward Roper (1830-1909)
Aboriginal Corroboree
Estimate: $15000 - 20000
Sold For:
$17000 hammer
Description
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