Impression/Expression: from Hugo Naudé to Georgina Gratrix

Live Virtual Auction, 14 September 2021

Impression/Expression and Wine

Sold for

ZAR 193 460
Lot 32
  • Maud Sumner; Scene with River and Bridge
  • Maud Sumner; Scene with River and Bridge
  • Maud Sumner; Scene with River and Bridge
  • Maud Sumner; Scene with River and Bridge
  • Maud Sumner; Scene with River and Bridge


Lot Estimate
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 193 460

About this Item

South African 1902-1985
Scene with River and Bridge

signed

oil on canvas
49 by 98cm excluding frame; 67 by 116 by 5cm including frame

Notes

Thanks to Gerard de Kamper for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

When Maud Sumner returned to Europe after waiting out World War II in South Africa, she noticed that the work of École de Paris artists had undergone a significant shift towards abstraction, in parallel with American Abstract Expressionism. Colour and surface became increasingly important and Sumner’s paintings from the 1950s onwards are similarly more abstract. She produced a hauntingly beautiful series of views of Thames River bridges, using contrasts of light and shadow and the simplified geometry of arching bridge spans, tethered barges and blocky industrial structures lining the banks to construct a sense of depth and atmosphere with an enviable economy of means.

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