Nie Alles Soet Nie (Not All Things are Sweet)
Frans Claerhout
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 31 658
About this Item
South African 1919-2006
Nie Alles Soet Nie (Not All Things are Sweet)
signed; inscribed with the title on the reverse
oil on canvas laid down on board
121 by 64,5cm excluding frame; 124,5 by 68 by 4,5cm including frame
Notes
This work depicts a wedding. It was a custom among the Coloured community in the Cape for an elderly relative to run ahead of the bridal couple foretelling all sorts of horrors, to prevent them from actually happening.
Provenance
Acquired from a gallery in Durban prior to 1975.
Thence by descent.
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