Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 26 September 2011
Important South African Art Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
About this Item
Irish/South African 1886-1964
The Card Players
signed D Elvery
oil on canvas
69 by 89cm excluding frame
Notes
Elvery was Dorothy Kay's maiden name
Literature
Marjorie Reynolds, Everything You Do Is a Portrait of Yourself, Dorothy Kay, a Biography, Alec Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, page 13.
This work was executed while the artist lived in Ireland, prior to coming to South Africa, and was one of three canvases brought with her to South Africa from Ireland. "A third work is The Card Players of two figures in candle-light seated at a table on which playing-cards are laid. Under a photograph of it in Dorothy's scrapbook is written "Painted in Rothbury - Marjorie sat for both figures - about 1907". In Dorothy's manuscript this painting was selected for reproduction. It is signed D Elvery."
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