Artists

From Albert Adams to Portia Zvavahera, Strauss & Co maintains a detailed database of every artist sold at auction since 2009. Whether it is painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, ceramics or new media, this searchable database lists by artist every lot offered and provides aggregated data useful to collectors. Famous South African artists like William Kentridge, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern are introduced with helpful biographies along with the best contemporary artists.



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Fred Page

South African 1908-1984 


Fred (Frederick Hutchinson) Page died in 1984 at the age of 76 having produced a body of work which is remarkable for its unique personal imagery and for portraying, with some accuracy, the particular architectural features of the city in which he lived.
Between 1947 and 1980, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, formed the backdrop for his extraordinarily fertile visual imagination. Reclusive by choice, he lived in an area close to the city’s harbour called Central where most of the material he used for the images was gleaned from sketches and photographs. Apart from a brief formative sojourn at art school for a year, he was largely self-educated. He read widely and had discriminating tastes in classical music. Unaffected by contemporary world trends in art, Page’s world is the world of the surreal, inhabited by characters who are entirely his own and were evolved from his observation of life on the streets and from niches in his background. The images are laced with mordant wit, a sense of the ridiculous and an encompassing sense of the enigmatic tragedies of life.

Source: Jeanne Wright and Cecil Kerber (2011) Fred Page: Ringmaster of the Imagination, Port Elizabeth: Cecil Kerbel.

Image courtesy of Selwyn Leibowitz


150 lots offered      74.00% sold      ZAR 5 758 824
 

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Fred Page; Bed in a Landscape
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 32 000
 
Fred Page; Hairdo
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 6 449
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Fred Page; The Treatment
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 11 139
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Fred Page; Butterfly Concerto
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Fred Page; Reach or Bust (painting and sketch), two
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 9 380
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Fred Page; Sketch for the Phantom Pass
14 Aug 2023
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Fred Page; Tenements
10 Jul 2023
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Fred Page; Fragments of a City: Linocuts of Port Elizabeth, portfolio
10 Jul 2023
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Fred Page; Missing Torso
10 Jul 2023
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Fred Page; Boat Wreck
10 Jul 2023
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Fred Page; Street View with Church Spire in the Distance
10 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 29 313
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Fred Page; Old Lady with a Cane
10 Jul 2023
Unsold

Results in green indicate post sales.