The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
Live Virtual Auction, 20 September 2022
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
About the SessionStrauss & Co is pleased to present this extraordinary collection as the featured session this September Live Virtual Auction. An established insolvency practitioner with a passion for the arts, Oliver Powell's principal focus has been collecting South African painting, sculpture and works on paper made since 1950. Colour, graphic ingenuity and emotional weight are all attributes in an artwork that Powell is drawn to. Powell also emphasises the importance of his many encounters with artists. “There is so much value in meeting an artist,” says Powell. “Aspects and details of their life are reflected in what and how they paint.”
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Notes
"On my second sojourn in Europe, around 1954, I was in northern Italy in a little village called Malcesine on Lake Garda. The painting was based on photographs I took of the quays going into the lake, where the sails of the boats and various bits of washing, mostly sheets, hung in a long rectangular line. This was a point of departure and reference for a study in which I adapted the elements to produce a composition with the emphasis on forms and colour." — Stanley Pinker1
1Michael Stevenson and Stanley Pinker (2004) Stanley Pinker, Cape Town: Stevenson, page 23.
Provenance
Graham's Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 19 April 2006.
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.
Literature
Michael Stevenson and Stanley Pinker (2004) Stanley Pinker, Cape Town: Stevenson, illustrated in colour on page 23.
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