Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on The Fairest Cape

Online-Only Auction, 23 - 28 November 2022

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The Fairest Cape
About the Session

The Cape Peninsula has been given many names throughout history. In 1488 Vasco da Gama named it the Cape of Storms and Prince Henry the Navigator gave it the name Cape of Good Hope. But it was the English Admiral, Sir Francis Drake, who gave this south-western most point of Africa the most appropriate name when he declared in 1579, “This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth”.   

These words still ring true today. The November auction has a large body of work devoted to this exceptional part of the world.  


Sold for

ZAR 9 380
Lot 14
  • Continental School 19th Century; Shipping off False Bay Coast
  • Continental School 19th Century; Shipping off False Bay Coast
  • Continental School 19th Century; Shipping off False Bay Coast


Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 9 380

About this Item

Shipping off False Bay Coast

signed Av Kellner

oil on canvas
37,5 by 74cm excluding frame; 107 by 70 by 9cm including frame

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