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Herbert Coetzee

South African 1921-2008 


Herbert Coetzee was a largely self-taught artist, except for a six-month training he attended in 1949 at the Continental School of Art in Cape Town, where he studied under Maurice van Essche. He was subsequently awarded a bursary by the Koninklijke Acedemie voor Schone Kunsten en de Hogere Institute in Antwerp, Belgium, between 1958 and 1960. He was a member of the executive committee of the South African Society of Artists in the 1950s and lectured in fine art at the Cape Technical College for twenty-three years, until 1981. He was commissioned to create numerous murals for commercial and military offices and for Safmarine vessels – SA Hex River and SA Alphen – and he participated in several group exhibitions, including the 1956 Quadrennial Exhibition and the 1981 Republic Festival Exhibition. Coetzee was a painter of landscapes, still-life studies, seascapes, figures and portraits which were rendered within the popular Cape tradition of derivative impressionism in oil, acrylic, gouache ink and charcoal. His paintings of landscapes with houses and still-life studies, in a colourful palette and using loose brush strokes, make up the main body of his artistic production. He is represented in several public and private collections throughout South Africa.


59 lots offered      83.05% sold      ZAR 364 737
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Huisies Tussen Bome (Houses Among Trees)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 104
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Straatjie in Athene (Street in Athens)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 5 628
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Rooidak Huisie agter Bome (Red Roofed House behind Trees)
22 Nov 2022
Starting at ZAR 1 900
 
Herbert Coetzee; Bome met Skadus oor die Pad (Trees Casting Shadows over the Road)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 2 932
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Pots of Violets and Cyclamens
13 Jun 2022
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Rooftops and Trees
14 Mar 2022
Sold for ZAR 3 752
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Landscape with Trees
14 Mar 2022
Sold for ZAR 6 449
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Still Life with Flowers in Amphora-Shaped Vase
14 Mar 2022
Sold for ZAR 3 283
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Birdcage at a Window
14 Mar 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 456
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Flowers in a Vase
21 Feb 2022
Sold for ZAR 11 139
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Landskap met Plaasgeboue (Oos-Transvaal), (Landscape with Farm Buildings, Eastern Transvaal)
21 Feb 2022
Sold for ZAR 2 932
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Herbert Coetzee; Portrait of a Young Man with Cap
25 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT