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Paintings Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 318 640
Lot 572
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow
  • Maggie Laubser; Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow


Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 318 640

About this Item

South African 1886-1973
Landscape with Houses, a Figure and a Cow

signed

oil on board
45 by 39,5cm excluding frame; 75 by 73 by 5cm including frame

Notes

In the late 1940s, Laubser moved from her family's farm to a house in the Strand that she named ‘Altyd Lig’ (Always Light), where she would live for the rest of her life. After this move, she continued working within the various themes and tropes that she had become well known for such as in the present lot: landscapes with villages, women carrying bundles of sticks, and livestock. However, these works were now mostly constructed from memory as is the case here. Dalene Marais explains this: “Where figures are usually small in the landscapes, birds, trees, cattle, and houses are generally big. It is as if these diminishing figures become a symbol of Maggie’s physical withdrawal from nature in this phase.”1

1. Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: her paintings, drawings and graphics. Johannesburg: Perskor, page 55.

Provenance

Mr PJ Naudé, Durban.

Thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor, illustrated on page 376, catalogue number 1692.

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