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 23 450
Lot 51
  • Paul du Toit; Treescape
  • Paul du Toit; Treescape
  • Paul du Toit; Treescape


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 23 450

About this Item

South African 1922-1986
Treescape

signed; dated c1961 and inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on a label adhered to the reverse

oil on board
49 by 58cm excluding frame; 76,5 by 85 by 5cm including frame

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 14 March 2016, lot 399. 

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