HAMMER COMES DOWN AT £80 ON SALE OF 12 STUNNING SOUTH AFRICAN BIRD STUDIES

 

This handsome study of two Giant Kingfishers and a Malachite Kingfisher is one of  12 colour plates contained in a protective case that sold for £80 at a sale conducted last month by Cirencester-based  auction house Dominic Winter. The collection, entitled The Kingfishers and Bee-Eaters of Southern Africa, was published in about 1985, by the Southern African Nature Foundation. All of them watercolours, the signed and numbered paintings are the work of artist David Ord Kerr with text by Richard Brooke.