(BIRDS) Lansdowne James Fenwick Western Tanager

Sale 2280 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 1,140

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(BIRDS.) Lansdowne, James Fenwick. Western Tanager. Magnificent watercolor on paper, picturing a pair of Western Tanagers on an evergreen branch, 590x515 mm (23 1/2x20 1/4 inches) sheet size; Signed and dated lower right; matted and framed. Canada, 1975

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Lansdowne is one of the greatest of the ornithological artists of the second half of the 20th century as well as the author of several books on the subject. A number of his watercolors have been on the auction market in recent years, but none begin to approach the beauty of the image offered here.