The cover lot of Strauss & Co’s winter Live Virtual auction, due to be held over three days from 26 to 28 July, is a monumental bushveld scene by JH Pierneef.
The cover lot of Strauss & Co’s winter Live Virtual auction, due to be held over three days from 26 to 28 July, is a monumental bushveld scene by JH Pierneef.
“The range and depth of this collection is astonishing. It charts major trends in South African landscape painting, from Pieter Wenning to Walter Meyer, and includes fine humanist figure studies, notably an Eastwood-period oil by Gerard Sekoto, as well as a stand-out landscape by Irma Stern.” The 45-lot collection will be offered to the public in a dedicated session on Tuesday, 28 July at 7pm.
Each distinctive in its own way, the two collections are nonetheless strongly grounded in twentieth-century South African modernism and offer collectors an opportunity to acquire important pieces. “The 45 lots on offer are drawn from a larger survey collection and include a number of important works by Pierneef, Sekoto and Stern.” Ranging in both style and geographical subject, the six Pierneef lots from this collection include the ochre-hued casein A Windswept Tree on an Extensive Landscape and A Lowveld Landscape with Trees , a remarkable tonal work from 1945 rendered in ochre, taupe, grey and russet.
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