Caryn Scrimgeour
Birds of Passage
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 128 975
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1970-
Birds of Passage
signed
oil on canvas
75,5 by 40,5cm excluding frame; 78,5 by 44 by 5cm including frame
Provenance
Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, 2019.
Private Collection.
Notes
"The work of Cape Town artist Caryn Scrimgeour is a playfully deceptive and decidedly contemporary take on one of the oldest genres in art history - the still life. Scrimgeour creates intricate birds-eye views of objects scattered on patterned fabrics - the aftermath of strange dinner parties. Her paintings resist the conventional notion that the genre, also known as nature morte (or 'dead nature'), is empty of life."1.
1. Lena Sulik (2023) Caryn Scrimgeour, About, online, https://www.carynscrimgeour.co.za/about, accessed 16 August 2024.
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