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Piet van Heerden

South African 1917-1991 


The son of South African missionaries, Piet van Heerden was born in Malawi in 1917. In 1927, he was sent to boarding school in Wellington in the Boland area of the Western Cape and then on to Cradock High School in the Eastern Cape where he received his first formal art training. In 1939, he moved back to the Boland, settling in Worcester. Here he was mentored by artist Hugo Naudé for 2 years (until Naudé’s death in 1941) and his influence is evident in van Heerden’s artworks. Van Heerden’s style has been identified as epitomising Cape Impressionism, which draws inspiration from European Impressionism and the works of South African artists such as Naudé, Pieter Wenning, and Nita Spilhaus. Van Heerden is noted for his landscape paintings celebrating the Boland – wheat fields, vineyards, farms, and mountains, the semi-arid landscapes of the Northern Cape and Southern Namibia, and, like his mentor, springtime in Namaqualand.

Van Heerden participated in 16 solo shows during his lifetime, the first in 1944, and in numerous group exhibitions between 1945 and 1990. In 1948, he took part in an exhibition of South African art at the Tate Gallery in London. In 1952, he joined UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts as a part time lecturer. Van Heerden died in 1991 at the age of 74.

Image courtesy H. J. Strydom.


318 lots offered      69.50% sold      ZAR 7 775 557
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Piet van Heerden; Plaas Opstal met Hoenders (Farmhouse with Chickens)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Autumn Vineyard (Between Paarl and Stellenbosch), recto; Hermanus, verso
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Winter Fields
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 6 449
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Eike in die Herfs (Oaks in Autumn)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 16 415
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Prostituut (Prostitute)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; The Synagogue, Gardens, Cape Town
3 Oct 2022
Starting at ZAR 25 000
 
Piet van Heerden; Landscape
29 Aug 2022
Starting at ZAR 11 000
 
Piet van Heerden; Street Scene
29 Aug 2022
Starting at ZAR 20 000
 
Piet van Heerden; Rocky Outcrop with Mountains Beyond
29 Aug 2022
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Farm Landscape
29 Aug 2022
Sold for ZAR 14 070
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; View across False Bay
29 Aug 2022
Sold for ZAR 17 588
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Piet van Heerden; Rural Homestead, Robertson
25 Jul 2022
Starting at ZAR 2 000
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