Provenance

Holtzhausen Kunsgalery.

Private Collection.

Notes

No gallery-goer ever doubted Pierneef's deep love of the bushveld, and it was the iconic, sky-fanning acacias and wild syringas that became his favoured motifs from these landscapes. Two majestic, stylised acacias dominate the composition here, their gently geometricised trunks and upper branches forming a beautiful, natural latticework in front of a cloudless sky. Serene and earthy colour harmonies enliven the grassland, which is bathed in a warm and wintry light. The golden treetops glow in the late afternoon sun, and the rolling hills beyond switch between mauve and pink as the sun moves across the sky. A similar work, Near Thabazimbi, Tvl, painted in 1943, appeared recently in Strauss & Co's Cape Town salerooms, selling for R2 731 200.