Watching the Play c.1890
oil on panel
signed lower right: Mortimer Menpes
artist's name, title and date on gallery label verso
15 x 10.8cm
Estimate $10,000 - $15,000
Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide (label verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Menpes, M., Japan: A Record in Colour, A & C. Black, London, December 1901, p.4 (illus.)
RELATED WORK:
Mortimer Menpes, Watching the Play, Kyoto, etching ed. AP, 21 x 29cm, Private collection
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8822
6:00pm - 6 October 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 October, 11am - 5pm, 2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn
CONTACT
Wiebke Brix
wiebke.brix@leonardjoel.com.au
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