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17 March 2024
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Life and Work of Lisa Brice
with Ashraf Jamal and Nkgopoleng Moloi, moderated by Art Specialist, Elmarie van Straten
Auction Highlights
LIVE VIRTUAL AUCTION
Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
19 March 2024
Lisa Brice
Ten Years Gone-Gr
R 1 600 000 – 2 000 000
Gerard Sekoto
Senegal and Paris
R 300 000 – 400 000
William Kentridge
Another Cat
R 120 000 – 160 000
Banele Khoza
At Peace
R 30 000 – 50 000
Featured Artist
Featured Artist
Alexis Preller
Pretoria-born artist Alexis Preller studied art in London at the Westminster School of Art and expanded his knowledge of art and art history by reading voraciously and travelling widely in Europe and Africa. He studied Egyptian, ancient Greek, Etruscan, early Renaissance and southern and central African art and culture, in particular, and created an art that was of his own place and time rather than a continuation of either traditional European practice or avant-garde Modernism. He visited Ndebele settlements near Pretoria in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the ‘Mapogga’ women in their distinctive traditional costume and the colourful geometric wall paintings that decorated the homesteads appear in his work from this time. His work became progressively more abstract in later years, informed by his interest in space travel and discovery, and his focus shifted from the local and the African to encompass the universal.