Flowers Drawings Inspiration :
Still Life of Variegated Tulips, Roses, a Hyacinth, a Primrose, a Violet, Forget-me-nots, a Columbine, Lily of the Valley, a Cyclamen, a Marigold and a Carnation All in a Glass Vase, with a Butterfly and Housefly, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, 1606 or 1608; estimate $3 million to $4 million.Bunny Mellon’s own informal floral arrangements echoed the loose gathering of flowers in this Bosschaert work. Traded for $35,000 in London in June 1964, it was purchased by the Mellons in April 1965 in …
