Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000USD 22 481 - 33 722
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 577 625
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About this Item
South African 1886-1973
Bird with Tomatoes
signed
oil on canvas laid down on board
44,5 by 49,5cm excluding frame; 63 by 68,5 by 3,5cm including frame
Notes
"... As time wore on, it became apparent to the public - as it had been conspicuous to her small circle of admirers - that Maggie Laubser, for all her so-called 'foreign modernism' was more South African than any other painter in the country; that she alone had crystallized her people's identification with the soil and their simple holistic view of nature; that behind the apparent naiveté of her forms there was a devout appreciation of spiritual unity which binds all living things..."1
1. Esmé Berman (1996) Art and Artists of South Africa, Johannesburg: South Book, page 254.
Provenance
Isabel Niehaus (née van Vuuren) Thaba N'chu.
The Clare Basson Collection.
Private Collection.