Strauss & co Staff Picks: Modern and Contemporary Art

Online-Only Auction, 26 September - 3 October 2022

Staff Picks

Sold for

ZAR 128 975
Lot 25
  • Esther Mahlangu; Ndebele Mother and Children
  • Esther Mahlangu; Ndebele Mother and Children
  • Esther Mahlangu; Ndebele Mother and Children


Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 128 975

About this Item

South African 1935-
Ndebele Mother and Children

signed and dated 2007

acrylic on canvas
60 by 80cm excluding frame; 84,5 by 104 by 5,5cm including frame

Notes

Staff Pick:

Wilhelm van Rensburg, Head Curator and Senior Art Specialist: "The small figures in the centre of this work just breaks the stark geometrical patterns one has come to associate with Esther Mahlangu’s work; it makes her art more ‘human’."

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