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Alice Elahi

South African 1926-2020 


Alice Elahi was born in Cape Town in 1926 and is well-known as a landscape artist, with a particular affinity for the Namibian landscape. As a teenager, she took lessons from Florence Zerffi at Rustenburg Girls High School and attended classes at the Frank Joubert Art Centre. While she completed a BSC at the University of Cape Town, her love of art led her to serve as the secretary of the University Art Society and helped to organise exhibitions. After graduating in 1948, Elahi attended the Continental School of Art in Cape Town, where she studied under Maurice van Essche and caught the attention of Irma Stern. The following year, she enrolled at the Anglo-French Art Centre in London and simultaneously took classes in stained glass at the Central School of Art and was tutored in painting by Victor Pasmore at the Camberwell. Elahi continued to broaden her studies at the Hampstead School of Art, where she was mentored by the Polish expressionist Zdzislaw Ruszkowski. She began exhibiting in the group shows of the Hampstead Art Society and the Women’s International Art Club.

Elahi married in 1954, and the couple, along with their two young daughters, settled in Pretoria in 1957; there she had two more daughters. In 1968, after a period of inactivity, Elahi entered and won the New Signatures competition. With this renewed encouragement, she continued to paint and exhibited regularly, including retrospective exhibitions at the University of Pretoria in 1988 and at the Pretoria Art Museum in 2015. She also had a travelling exhibition from late 2015 to early 2016 of her seascapes at the Irma Stern Gallery in Cape Town, the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch, and the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberly.


35 lots offered      82.86% sold      ZAR 280 606
 

Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Alice Elahi; Evening Before the Rio Race
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 32 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Landscape with Mountains
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Seascape
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Landscape in Pink and Green
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Snow White Sands, Struisbaai
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 3 518
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Seascape with Sand Dunes
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Namaqualand Landscape
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Derelict Buildings at Elizabeth Bay, Sperregebiet
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 2 345
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Seascape
11 Apr 2023
Sold for ZAR 25 795
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Sleeping Child
3 Oct 2022
Sold for ZAR 1 759
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; Sunset
13 Jun 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 925
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Alice Elahi; In the Poort, Seweweekspoort
13 Jun 2022
Sold for ZAR 1 876
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.