Notes

“Only three still-lifes by Kottler are known: Vase with Dahlias (PPL. I9), Still-life with Bronze Buddha or Still-life with Blue, Red and White Flowers (PPI. 20) and Still-life with Coffee-pot or Still-life with Orange and Pale Yellow Flowers (PPL. 21). A. Z. Berman bought the Dahlias from Kottler in 1920 to give it as a wedding-present to the present owner; the two other still-lifes were at some time or other acquired by Boonzaier's friend Bernard Lewis”¹

^1. Johannes du Plessis Scholtz (1976) Moses Kottler: His Cape Years, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, page 29.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by AZ Berman, 1920.

Gifted as a wedding present to Mrs H Back, Paarl.

Private Collection.

Literature

Johannes du Plessis Scholtz (1976) Moses Kottler: His Cape Years, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, illustrated in black and white on page 93 as plate 19, mentioned on page 29.