Notes

The present lot was inherited by the current owners from Professor Lionel Bowman. On a trip around the peninsula with author Mary Reynolds, Professor Lionel Bowman acquired the current lot from an exhibition of Freida Lock’s work at Hout Bay Manor.

Born in the Orange Free State, Lionel Bowman studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Throughout his career Bowman maintained a prestigious standard towards his craft; he earned medals and became the professor of piano at the University of Stellenbosch and co-authored ‘The Magic Touch’, subsequently leading him to become one of South Africa’s finest musicians and being noted in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.¹ Bowman passed away in 2006 at the age of 87. The current owners remember him as the kindest and most generous person that they had ever met.

^1. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/obituaries. readersobituaries, accessed 23 February 2023.

Provenance

Professor Lionel Bowman, thence by descent.

Literature

Stephen Welz (1996) Art at Auction in South Africa: Art Market Review 1969 to 1995, Johannesburg: Art Link, a similar example illustrated in colour on page 113, with the title 'Hotel Verandah, Hout Bay'.