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Alexis Preller

South African 1911-1975 


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.


360 lots offered      80.83% sold      ZAR 240 590 783
 

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Alexis Preller; Christ Head
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 2 500 000
 
Alexis Preller; Young King
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 3 200 000
 
Alexis Preller; South African Beauty
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 700 000
 
Alexis Preller; Apple I
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 450 000
 
Alexis Preller; The North Wind
27 Nov 2023
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Alexis Preller; Three Mangoes
8 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 346 575
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Alexis Preller; Mapogga Women in a Field
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 462 100
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Alexis Preller; Flowers in a Vase
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 234 500
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Alexis Preller; The Shells
7 Nov 2023
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Alexis Preller; Woman Reading
7 Nov 2023
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Alexis Preller; Still Life with Lilies and Shell
7 Nov 2023
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Alexis Preller; Vibrating Figure
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 2 058 750
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