Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art

Online-Only Auction, 30 May - 13 June 2022

Watercolour: The Choreography of Chance and Control

Sold for

ZAR 4 690
Lot 45
  • Grace Anderson; St Ives, Cornwall
  • Grace Anderson; St Ives, Cornwall
  • Grace Anderson; St Ives, Cornwall


Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 4 690

About this Item

Grace Anderson
British/South African 1892-1975
St Ives, Cornwall

signed with the artist's initials and dated 1919; inscribed with VII and the title on the reverse

watercolour on paper
sheet size: 25,5 by 35,5cm, unframed

Notes

Grace Anderson was born in Klerksdorp in the then Transvaal (now the town falls in North West Provence) and later lived in the Eastern Cape where her father was a land surveyor. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Arts in London at the age of 16 and, being a minor, had to be chaperoned to England to undertake her studies. One of her subjects was heraldry and she later designed the coat-of-arms of the University of Pretoria. Back in South Africa, Anderson lectured at the Teachers’ Training College in Johannesburg where she met Walter Battiss in the early 1930s. She then went on to become an inspector of arts at schools in the province.

In March 1940, Anderson and Battiss were married and a year later they moved into their Norman Eaton-designed house in 20th Street, Menlo Park, Pretoria. By all accounts the couple had a close and loving relationship and Battiss was devastated by Anderson’s death in 1975.

Provenance

Estate Walter Battiss.


Other lots that might interest you
Zdzislaw Ruszkowski; Abstract Figures
Zdzislaw Ruszkowski
Abstract Figures
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Landscape with Trees and Mountains
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef
Landscape with Trees and Mountains
ZAR 40 000 - 50 000
Grace Anderson; Houses, Cornwall
Grace Anderson
Houses, Cornwall
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
Sydney Carter; Nocturnal Street Scene
Sydney Carter
Nocturnal Street Scene
ZAR 3 000 - 5 000
William Timlin; The Witch
William Timlin
The Witch
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
William Timlin; The Gift
William Timlin
The Gift
ZAR 12 000 - 16 000