The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 20 September 2022

The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
About the Session

Strauss & 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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ZAR 182 080
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  • Pranas Domsaitis; The Flight to Egypt
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ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
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ZAR 182 080

About this Item

Pranas Domsaitis
Lithuanian/South African 1880-1965
The Flight to Egypt

signed; signed and inscribed with the title on the reverse

oil on canvas laid down on board
69,5 by 56cm excluding frame; 88 by 74 by 2cm including frame

Notes

"His work possesses something of Chagall's enchanting visions, the guileless piety of Rouault, the resonant colour of the Expressionists and the intuitive wisdom of the peasant." — Graham Watson1

1Elsa ver Looren van Themaat (1976) Pranas Domsaitis, Cape Town and Johannesburg: C. Struik Publishers, page 20.

Provenance

Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby's, Cape Town, 7 February 2006, lot 472.

The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.

Literature

Elsa ver Looren van Themaat (1976) Pranas Domsaitis, Cape Town and Johannesburg: C Struik Publishers, a similar example is illustrated in black and white on page 43.

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