Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art and South African Fine Wine
Live Virtual Auction, 26 - 28 July 2020
Monday Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 341 400
About this Item
South African 1911-1975
The Gates
signed and dated '68; inscribed with the title on the reverse
mixed media on canvas laid down on chipboard panel
32 by 25,5cm excluding frame; 36 by 29,5 by 5cm including frame
Exhibited
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Katzen Collection, April 1968.
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Alexis Preller Retrospective, 24 October to 26 November 1972.
Literature
Pretoria Art Museum (1972) Alexis Preller Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: PAM, illustrated in colour on page 5, catalogue no 73.
Esmé Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: AA Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 10.
Esmé Berman and Karel Nel (2009) Collected Images (vol. 2), Johannesburg: Shelf Publishing, a work from the same series, belonging to Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, is illustrated in colour on pages 183 and 218.
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