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ZAR 454 720
Lot 202
  • Adolph Jentsch; S.W. Afrika


Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 454 720
Auction Catalogue

About this Item

German/Namibian 1888-1977
S.W. Afrika

signed with the artist's initials and dated 1944; signed twice, inscribed with the title and '113' twice on the stretcher

oil on canvas
69 by 99cm excluding frame

Notes

At the time of Adolph Jentsch's Pretoria Art Museum Retrospective exhibition (1970), Riena van Graan, assistant curator at the museum wrote: "I think the great value of Jentsch as an artist lies in that he is the only artist who tackled the problem of the homogenous blue cloudless sky above a landscape with the veld full of bushes and veld shrubs consequently full of turbulent elements. Pierneef who sought the decorative quality in the landscape, abridged the problem of discord in the painting by means of a cloudy sky. But this smooth blue sky of Jentsch's does not divide the painting in two, it rather contributes to the grandeur and infinity and strongly emphasises the third dimension of the landscape over which it stretches. It is but one of the reasons why it may be said that Jentsch perhaps more than Pierneef penetrated to the character of the landscape and laid bare its innermost nature."

This landscape has been identified as a view from Vrede, Adrian Esterhuizen's farm on the edge of the desert sands of the Sperregebiet, the forbidden diamond area.

Provenance

The Olga Levinson Collection

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