Alfred Neville Lewis
Pnina Salzman and the Cape Town Orchestra
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 29 313
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1895-1972
Pnina Salzman and the Cape Town Orchestra
signed
oil on board
24,5 by 35cm excluding frame; 35 by 45 by 3,5cm including frame
Notes
The present lot is a small-scale study of a larger work of the same title, illustrated in Alexander & Cohen (1990). It depicts the young Israeli classical pianist Pnina Salzman (1922-2008) performing with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra in 1948.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist's widow, Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth and thence by descent.
Literature
Lucy Alexander and Evelyn Cohen (1990) 150 South African Paintings, Cape Town, Struikhof Publishers, the large-scale painting is illustrated in colour on page 71, plate 47.
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