Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art and South African Fine Wine

Live Virtual Auction, 26 - 28 July 2020

Tuesday Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 31 864
Lot 389
  • Hannatjie van der Wat; Abstract Composition
  • Hannatjie van der Wat; Abstract Composition
  • Hannatjie van der Wat; Abstract Composition
  • Hannatjie van der Wat; Abstract Composition
  • Hannatjie van der Wat; Abstract Composition


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 31 864

About this Item

South African 1923-2020
Abstract Composition

signed

oil on canvas
91 by 120cm excluding frame; 93 by 123 by 4cm including frame

Notes

Hannatjie van der Wat’s range of artistic expression is evident in the three lots on the Strauss & Co July 2020 Johannesburg sale. Having studied under Maurice van Essche in the 1940s and Sydney Goldblatt in the 1960s, both of whom emphasised the importance of a good structure to underlie an art work, Van der Wat naturally developed from an organic, gestural style of painting – ‘her forms abstract and painterly, suspended in vague, undefined surrounding’1 – to an exploration of a post-painterly abstraction, characteristically with flat, geometric and striped compositions. Her experimentation with ceramic sculpture in the 1970s led to a return the organic, with a new ‘spontaneous, humanised vigour’.2

1. Esme Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: AA Balkema, page 467.

2. Ibid, page 468.

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