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Anton van Wouw
South African 1862-1945

The father of the naturalistic and Euro-centric sculptural tradition in South Africa, Anton van Wouw left a remarkable and era-defining body of monumental and small-scale bronzes. Born in Driebergen in 1862, and apprenticed to the Belgian sculptor Joseph Graven, Van Wouw arrived in Pretoria in 1890 (the same year, incidentally, as his countryman Frans Oerder). While in his early years on the Highveld he was engaged with architectural embellishments, he won a major commission in 1895 to model and cast the Paul Kruger Monument for Church Square in Pretoria. Other state and public commissions followed, including the Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein and the Woman and Children grouping at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. After receiving backing from an investment syndicate in 1907, Van Wouw produced numerous small-scale sculptures, mainly of Boer and African figures, that were cast to order by the Giovanni Nisini and Galileo Massa foundries in Rome. The literature on the artist is fast-moving, with key recent discoveries shedding new light on the provenance and casting histories of many of the artist’s most beloved and collectable masterpieces.
67 lots offered 91.04% sold ZAR 55 493 936
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- Shany van den Berg
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- Eben van der Merwe
- Hentie van der Merwe
- Strijdom van der Merwe
- Hieronymous van der Mij
- Gunther van der Reis
- Hannatjie van der Wat
- Pieter van der Westhuizen
- Kees van Dongen
- Attributed to Isaac van Duynen
- Maurice van Essche
- Johan van Heerden
- Louis van Heerden
- Piet van Heerden
- Gail Kathleen van Lingen
- Herman van Nazareth
- Charl van Niekerk
- Johanna Jacoba Bleuland van Oordt
- Frank (Francois) van Reenen
- Derric van Rensburg
- Jacob van Schalkwyk
- Jaco van Schalkwyk
- Linda van Someren
- Bastiaan van Stenis
- Louis Jansen van Vuuren
- Ruhan Janse van Vuuren
- Anton van Wouw
- Riaan van Zyl
- Minnette Vári
- Victor Vasarely
- Yvaral Jean-Pierre Vasarely
- Aristotelis Vasilikiotis
- Patricia Mary Vaughan
- Nontsikelelo Veleko
- Kobie Venter
- Nico Verboom
- Jan Vermeiren
- Marié Vermeulen-Breedt
- Daan Vermeulen
- Pierre Vermeulen
- Casper Versluis
- Andrew Verster
- Jack Vettriano
- Diane Victor
- Edoardo Villa
- Jacques Villon
- Wendy Vincent
- Maria Manuela Vintilescu
- Harold Voigt
- Leigh Voigt
- Walter Voigt
- Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk
- Vera Volschenk
- Marlene von Dürckheim
- Christine von Huetz-Davisson
- Heinrich von Michaelis
- Anna Vorster
- Alma Ita Vorster
- Gordon Vorster
- Margaret Vorster
- Edouard Vuillard
- Jeremy Wafer
- Mary Wafer
- Andrew Walford
- Marjorie Wallace
- Sarah Walmsley
- Aidan Walsh
- Andy Warhol
- Agnes Waruguru
- Royal Lesotho Tapestry Weavers
- James Webb
- Jessica Webster
- Ingrid Weiersbye
- Wolf Weinek
- Harrison William Weir
- Jean Welz
- Pieter Wenning
- Kylie Wentzel
- Tom Wesselmann
- Walter Westbrook
- John Laviers Wheatley
- Taffy (Matthew) Whippman
- Izanne Wiid
- Helen Wildeboer
- Walter Gilbert Wiles
- Graeme Williams
- Quinten Edward Williams
- Sue Williamson
- Gerd Winner
- Edward Wolfe
- Joseph Wolpe
- Max Wolpe
- Judy Woodborne
- Susan Woolf
- Zao Wou-Ki
- Florian Wozniak
- Paul Wunderlich
- Karen Wykerd
- Nhlanhla Xaba
- Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza
- Teruko Yokoi
- Ed Young
- Russell Young
- Gavin Younge
- Billie Zangewa
- Florence Zerffi
- Asha Zero
- Dominique Zinkpè
- Michael Gagashe Zondi
- Sandile Zulu
- Vuminkosi Zulu
- Ravi Zupa
- Portia Zvavahera