May ART with a focus on Seasons
Timed Online Auction, 3 - 13 May 2024
Impression/Expression
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
About this Item
German/South African 1878-1967
View from Fresnaye over The Monastry
signed with the artist's monogram
oil on panel
27 by 35,5cm excluding frame; 44,5 by 53 by 3,5cm including frame
Notes
Accompanied by a hand-written note inscribed with "Original Painting by Nita Spilhaus (valuable) View from Fresnaye, over the Monastry which was on High Level Road. Mouille Point Lighthouse (Given to me by Aunt Elsa)" enclosed in an envelope, adhered to the reverse.
Literature
Graham's Fine Art Gallery (2006) Between Foothold and Flight, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: Graham's Fine Art Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 21.
Peter Elliot (2015) Nita Spilhaus (1878-1967) and Her Artist Friends in the Cape During the Early Twentieth Century, Cape Town: Peter Elliot, a similar example illustrated in colour on page 140.
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