Notes

The present lot was a gift to the current owners from Professor Lionel Bowman.

Born in the Orange Free State, Lionel Bowman studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Throughout his career Bowman maintained a prestigious standard towards his craft; he earned prestigious medals and became the professor of piano at the University of Stellenbosch and co-authored 'The Magic Touch', subsequently leading him to become one of South Africa's finest musicians and being noted in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.¹ Bowman passed away in 2006 at the age of 87. The current owners remember him as the kindest and most generous person that they had ever met.

^1. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/obituaries.readersobituaries, accessed 23 February 2023.

Provenance

Professor Lionel Bowman, thence by descent.