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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.

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396 lots offered      80.81% sold      ZAR 257 938 170
 

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Alexis Preller; Seated Woman
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 211 050
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Alexis Preller; Male Nude; Male Nude Study, two
12 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 600 000
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Alexis Preller; Profile Portrait, Congo
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 293 125
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Alexis Preller; Mural
12 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 6 000 000
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Alexis Preller; Reclining Nude
11 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 234 500
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Alexis Preller; Island with Palm Trees Sketch, Seychelles
9 Oct 2024
Starting at ZAR 20 000
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Alexis Preller; Woman Reading
9 Oct 2024
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
 
Alexis Preller; Soldiers
9 Oct 2024
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
 
Alexis Preller; Blue Head
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 17 588
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Alexis Preller; Head in Three Quarter Profile
9 Oct 2024
Starting at ZAR 15 000
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Alexis Preller; Rider
17 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 1 039 725
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Alexis Preller; Dioscure Debout
9 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 3 283
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