Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 26 September 2011

Important South African Art Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 1 559 600
Lot 264
  • Pieter Wenning; From Grove Road, Claremont, with Devil's Peak


Lot Estimate
ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 1 559 600

About this Item

South African 1873-1921
From Grove Road, Claremont, with Devil's Peak

signed

oil on canvas
31,5 by 44,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Pieter Wenning painted this scene in 1919.  At the time the artist was lodging at the Vineyard Hotel, as J. Du Preez Scholtz informs us in his detailed record of Wenning’s life as traced through D. C. Boonzaier’s diary.  Unable to pay for his board, the artist appealed to Boonzaier, his mentor, friend and greatest supporter throughout his life.  Leading businessman and Member of Parliament, Dr William Duncan Baxter, came to the artist’s rescue when he acquired two paintings, one of which was this work.  Baxter clearly had a passion for the arts and it was as a result of the generous bequest in his will that the Baxter Theatre was established which, in his words, would "develop and cultivate the arts in Cape Town and the adjacent districts".

Exhibited

South African National Gallery, Pieter Wenning Commemorative Exhibition, September, 1973

Literature

J. Du Preez Scholtz, D C Boonzaier and Pieter Wenning: Verslag van 'n Vriendskap, Tafelberg Publishers, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1973, page 133, illustrated plate 117.

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