Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
About this Item
German/Namibian 1888-1977
Extensive Landscape, Namibia
signed with the artist's initials and dated 1949; signed on the stretcher
oil on canvas
45 by 70cm excluding frame; 52,5 by 77 by 7cm including frame
Notes
In Jentsch's cosmic conception of Nature he conveys sublimity - the infinite - by means of subtle suggestion. He is a master of empty spaces which give a special spiritual quality to his work.1
1. Olga Levinson (1973) Adolph Jentsch, Cape Town: Human and Rousseau, page 68.
Provenance
Private Collection, Cape Town.
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