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ZAR 85 350
Lot 292
  • Cecil Higgs; Composition, Onrust
  • Cecil Higgs; Composition, Onrust
  • Cecil Higgs; Composition, Onrust
  • Cecil Higgs; Composition, Onrust


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 85 350

About this Item

South African 1898-1986
Composition, Onrust

signed and dated 40, inscribed with the artist's name and the title on South African National Gallery and Pretoria Art Museum labels adhered to the reverse

oil on canvas
51 by 61cm excluding frame; 60 by 70 by 4,5cm including frame

Provenance

The Victor Holloway Collection.

Exhibited

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, New Group/Nuwe Groep 1938-1954, June 1988.

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition, catalogue number 11,  1975.

William Humphreys Art Gallery, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition,  catalogue number 11, 1975.

Durban Art Gallery, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition,  catalogue number 11, 1975.

Pretoria Art Museum, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition,  catalogue number 11, 1975.

Literature

A C Bouman (1955) Painters of South Africa, Cape Town, Pretoria and Amsterdam: Haum J H de Bussy, illustrated in black and white on page 110.

Victor Holloway (1974) Cecil Higgs, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, illustrated in colour on the dust jacket and as figure 32 on page 52.

Esmé Berman (1975) The Story of South African Painting, Cape Town: A A Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 95.

Esmé Berman (1996) Art and Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: National Book Printers, illustrated in black and white on page 214 with the title Woman Reading, Onrust.

Murray Schoonraad (1988) New Group/Nuwe Groep 1938-1954, Cape Town: South African National Gallery, illustrated in colour as figure 18 and on the front cover.

 

 

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