Still in its original frame, Irma created it during her second visit to the archipelago in 1945.
The pioneering South African modernist painter Irma Stern journeyed to the East African archipelago of Zanzibar twice, in 1939 and 1945, where she produced portraits revered by generations of collectors for their mastery of form and subject.
Auctioneer Strauss & Co is proud to offer The Smoker , a highly important Zanzibar portrait made during Stern’s second visit in 1945.Presented in its original Zanzibar frame, Stern’s extraordinary portrait will be offered to collectors during Strauss & Co’s flagship live auction of modern and contemporary art next Tuesday.
“The Smoker is a captivating depiction of a Zanzibari man intently engaged in the act of smoking a pipe and showcases Stern’s painterly skills at their triumphant best,” says Jean le Clus-Theron, head of sale, Strauss & Co.s importance is clear from the fact that it has appeared in two major South African surveys of her work, in 2003 and 2021,” Le Clus-Theron said.
Adds Le-Clus-Theron: “We are doubly delighted to be offering this significant work a month before the opening of the 2022 edition of Venice Biennale.“This year, after an absence of seven decades, Stern’s work will appear in Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa’s main curated exhibition,, alongside works by 330 modern and contemporary artists, many of them from the Global South.
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