Four generations of women from one family - Edith King, her sister Bertha Everard and her two daughters Ruth and Rosamund, Ruth’s daughter Leonora and her daughters Alana and Nichola, whose artistic production spans almost a century - this is the Everard Phenomenon. Celebrating their significant contribution to South African art history, a major national travelling exhibition of paintings by the women known as the Everard Group opened at the Grahamstown Festival in 2000. In this sale, we continue to honour this important artistic legacy as we offer a selection of artworks by most members of this remarkable family of women artists.

The Everard women exhibited extensively in public exhibitions throughout their artistic careers, both in England and South Africa, and their artworks are well represented in all major art collections throughout the country.