Important South African and International Art
Live Auction, 13 November 2017
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 16 000USD 663 - 885
About this Item
British/South African 1915-1969
Venusian Apartments
signed, dated 1961 and inscribed with the title on the reverse
Indian ink and watercolour on paper
sheet size: 50,5 by 38cm
Notes
The scale and substance of Jack Heath's major paintings are in sharp contrast to his humorous, madcap, and hugely inventive works on paper. In this light, Venusian Apartments has at its centre a fantastical geometric construction, linked together by lozenges, squares and strips of translucent pinks, blues and purples, and surrounded by blasts of yellow and green from behind an intricate, combed motif.