Nita Spilhaus
Windswept Trees
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 85 350
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
German/South African 1878-1967
Windswept Trees
signed with the artist's monogram; dated 1945 and inscribed with the artist's name and the title on the reverse
oil on board
60 by 83cm excluding frame; 84 by 107 by 4cm including frame
Notes
"Only when she began to tackle the wind-sculpted forms of the Cape pines which grew on Devil's Peak did Nita Spilhaus find a theme which offered outlet to her modest personal lyricism; thereafter and throughout her career, trees of all kinds were to provide her most sympathetic subject matter … She [adopted her friend Pieter Wenning's] distinctive procedures of painting opaque, sombre skies … over a dark, warm imprimatura and pointing up the structure of the composition with the linear accents of gnarled, naked branches."
Esmé Berman
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