Fine & Applied Art Wednesday, 4 September 2019 - 6:00 PM start
John Gully - Head of the Godley
Realised: $5,000 plus premium
Lot Details
John Gully (1819-88) Head of the Godley watercolour heightened with white signed 'John Gully' (lower left) 32 x 57cm Provenance Private collection, Auckland Sale, Dunbar Sloane Ltd, Wellington, 10 August 2016 (lot 50) Note a similar composition entitled Sources of the Godley River, Claussen and Godley Glaciers, 3550 ft is housed in the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library. This is one of twelve paintings of von Haast's sketches used to illustrate his paper Notes on the Mountains and Glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, read to the Royal Geographical Society, London 1864.
