Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
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Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 900
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About this Item
South African 1920-2020
Recumbent Nude
signed
white Carrera marble
height: 28cm; width: 64cm; depth: 38cm
Notes
'I have always found the female figure fascinating, the image in my mind has already been simplified before I start. No complicated bulging muscles, but gentle flowing curves. My figures, although reclining, are not static but full of movement. I use the suggestion of drapes to reveal the sinuous quality of inner muscular tensions. I emphasize these curves using the natural flow of line and direction.' -Stella Shawzin.
Provenance
Bonhams, London, 18 March 2015, Lot 65.
Die Kunskamer, Cape Town, 20 April 2015.
Private Collection.
Literature
Lord St John of Fawsley and Prof. V.T Wechter (1994) Stella Shawzin Recent Sculpture, page 6 and 7.
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