Modern, Post War and Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 11 November 2019

Session One

Sold for

ZAR 341 400
Lot 71
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri


Lot Estimate
ZAR 350 000 - 500 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 341 400

About this Item

South African 1907-1946
Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri

signed; inscribed with 'Still Life with Coral Tree' on a Pretoria Art Museum label on the reverse

oil on canvas
91,5 by 59cm excluding frame; 105 by 73cm by 4cm including the artist's painted frame

Notes

The artist studied music from 1925 to 1926 at the Paris Conservatoire.

The Everard Group included sisters Edith King (see Lot 78) and Bertha Everard, Bertha’s daughters Ruth and Rosamund, and later Ruth’s daughter Leonora and Leonora’s daughter Nicky. Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp, the youngest of the original members, spent time in the 1920s in London and Paris where she entered the Conservatoire to study music. The original group’s work has similarities with that of the Bloomsbury Group, who were working at the same time, particularly the work of Rosamund, who designed and painted the frame for her painting Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri.

Provenance

The collection of Ruth Everard Haden.

Private Collection, Johannesburg.

Exhibited

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Retrospective Exhibition of the Everard Group, 1967.

Literature

Frieda Harmsen (1980) The Women of Bonnefoi: The Story of the Everard Group, Pretoria: Van Schaik. Illustrated on page 159 as plate 184.

Alan Crump (2000) The Everard Phenomenon: An Exhibition of Paintings by the Everard Family, Johannesburg: The Standard Bank Gallery. Illustrated on page 119, catalogue number 49.

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