Dorothy Kay
Overhauling the tug "Talana"
LOT 705
Dorothy Kay
Overhauling the tug "Talana"
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Irish/South African 1886-1964
Overhauling the tug "Talana"
signed
oil on canvas
63,5 by 59cm excluding frame
Notes
South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse
Overhauling the tug "Talana" is one of three paintings leaning against the fireplace in an early photograph taken in Dorothy Kay's living room, illustrated in Marjorie Reynolds' biography on Dorothy Kay, which the author refers to as "a number of very good paintings."
Exhibited
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition, 26 June to 8 August 1982, catalogue number 12 with the title Tug 'talana' on the slipway
Literature
Reynolds, Marjorie. (1989) Dorothy Kay: Everything You Do Is A Portrait Of Yourself, A Biography, Rosebank: Alec Marjorie Reynolds. Pages 35 and 36.
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