Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art and South African Fine Wine
Live Virtual Auction, 26 - 28 July 2020
Tuesday Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 147 940
About this Item
South African 1886-1973
Portrait of a Malay Woman in a Headdress
signed and dated 20; inscribed with the artist's name and 'Bantoekop' on a Pretoria Art Museum label adhered to the reverse
gouache on paper
36 by 26cm excluding frame; 57 by 44,5 by 2,5cm including frame
Provenance
A gift from the artist to pianist and composer Vere Bosman di Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman) and thence by descent.
Exhibited
The work was considered for the Maggie Laubser Retrospective Exhibition held in 1969 at the National Gallery in Cape Town and the Pretoria Art Museum but not included in the final selection.
Literature
cf. Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Johannesburg: Perskor, similar works illustrated on page 313.
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