Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 12 October 2015

Important South African and International Art, Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 181 888
Lot 503
  • Alexander Rose-Innes; Lady Undressing


Lot Estimate
ZAR 140 000 - 180 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 181 888

About this Item

South African 1915-1996
Lady Undressing

signed

oil on canvas
60 by 50cm excluding frame

Notes

Martin Bekker, (1991) The Art of Alexander Rose Innes, Cape Town, Perskor:

Above all, Rose-Innes is a painter of people.   Although he enjoys painting men engaged in diverse pursuits...he prefers to paint women.  Few other South African artists have depicted women so consistently, so exhaustively; women engaged in feminine activities such as combing their hair, doing their make-up, preening in front of the mirror; leggy nudes, in soft-to-the-touch pink - bosomy promises of pneumatic bliss; oh-so-feminine boudoir scenes of women draped in frilly dresses, cascades of lace stressing their frail beauty.

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