Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 17 March 2014

Important South African and International Art - Evening Session

Sold for

ZAR 113 680
Lot 689
  • Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp; Wheatfields near Kimpton


Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 113 680

About this Item

South African 1907-1946
Wheatfields near Kimpton

signed, executed in 1924

oil on panel
26,5 by 34,5cm excluding frame

Literature

Harmsen, Frieda. (1980) The Women of Bonnefoi:The story of the Everard Group, Pretoria: Van Schaik. Illustrated on page 93, number 96.

'In the following year, that is 1924, when Rosamund joined her mother and sister in painting wheatlands near Kimpton, she used pattern to convey emotion.   Rosamund's little panel - so much like her mother's version of the same subject that only the discrete signature convinces the viewer of it authorship - links with the almost contemporary expressionist work of the young Maggie Laubser who was also painting in Europe at that time.   The advance made by the young Rosamund, particularly in the projection of mood, is remarkable, and demonstrates pointedly how the inadvertently exerted influence of the two trained artists, Bertha and Ruth, had been absorbed.'

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