South African and International Art

Live Auction, 20 May 2013

Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 40 925
Lot 22
  • Robert Gwelo Goodman; Still Life with Roses


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 40 925

About this Item

South African 1871-1939
Still Life with Roses

signed

oil on canvas
45 by 35cm excluding frame

Notes

In a candid 1935 interview with the press at the opening of his Johannesburg exhibition, Gwelo stated: "I paint roses, I was going to say as well as any man alive-but probably better. Fantin-Latour is the only rival I have ever had as a rose painter."1

1 Newton Thompson, Joyce. Gwelo Goodman: South African Painter. Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951, page 107

Provenance

Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg

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