Day Sale
Timed Online Auction, 29 August - 16 September 2025
Day Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Current Bid1 bid
Current bid
ZAR 13 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item
South African 1886-1957
Portrait of General de la Rey (Nilant 126)
1914
signed and dated 1914 in pencil in the margin; inscribed with the artist's initial in the plate; inscribed with the title and dated October on the reverse of the sheet
linocut on paper
image size: 19 by 14,5cm; 62 by 53,5 by 4,5cm including frame
Provenance
Strauss & Co, Online, 14 March 2022, lot 22.
Literature
F E G Nilant (1974) Die Hout- en Linosneë van J H Pierneef, Cape Town: A A Balkema, another impression illustrated on page 161.
Gerard de Kamper and Chris de Klerk (2014) J H Pierneef (1886–1957), Bela-Bela: Dream Africa, another example from the edition illustrated in black and white on page 190.
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