•IVAN MESTROVIC (Croatian, 1883-1962) A study of a classical figure

•IVAN MESTROVIC (Croatian, 1883-1962) A study of a classical figure stading aboard a boat with ram's head prow, above the artists name, gold paint on paper, 35cm x 24cm in a gold painted frame with relief animal decoration bearing a Rowley Gallery label verso; together with a copy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition Catalogue of 1915, which features the artwork on the front cover The book 'Ivan Mestrovic, A Monograph' (various authors) pub. Williams & Norgate, London, 1919, states on page 93, note 86 "The reproduction of the end piece in the centre of the last page, is made from a drawing by I. Mestrovic himself, and was used on the cover of the catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition in London, 1915' Provenance: The Property of the eminent portrait, ballet and travel photographer E. O. Hoppe (1878-1972) and thence by descent