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Lot Estimate
ZAR 600 000 - 800 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 682 800
About this Item
South African 1911-1975
Abstract Janus
oil on canvas
67,5 by 74,5cm excluding frame; 91 by 98 by 3,5cm including frame
Notes
“Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology and presided over passages, doors, gates, and endings, as well as in transitional periods such as from war to peace. He was usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite ways, one towards the past and the other towards the future.”
GreekMythology.com © Copyright 1997-2021, https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Roman/Janus/janus.html, accessed 26 February, 2021.
Provenance
The Alexis Preller and Guna Massyn Collections, thence by descent to Guna’s brother.
Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 17 March 2014, lot 710.
Private Collection.
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