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 14 070
Lot 27
  • Terence McCaw; Waterkant St, Elim
  • Terence McCaw; Waterkant St, Elim
  • Terence McCaw; Waterkant St, Elim


Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070

About this Item

South African 1913-1978
Waterkant St, Elim

signed and dated 49; inscribed with the title on the reverse

oil on canvas laid down on board
34,5 by 44,5cm excluding frame; 52,5 by 63 by 4,5cm including frame

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