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 2 345
Lot 61
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg
  • Nita Spilhaus; Table Mountain from Blouberg


Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 000 - 1 500
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 2 345

About this Item

German/South African 1878-1967
Table Mountain from Blouberg

signed in pencil in the margin and inscribed with the artist's monogram in the plate; inscribed with the artist's biography in Afrikaans on the reverse

etching on paper
image size: 15,5 by 25cm; sheet size: 28 by 39,5cm; 33 by 42 by 2,5cm including frame

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