Alexis Preller
Shells with Red Egg
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 346 575
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1911-1975
Shells with Red Egg
1949
signed and dated '49; inscribed with the artist's name and the title 'Shells and Egg' on a Pretoria Art Museum label on the reverse
oil on canvasboard
18,5 by 28,5cm excluding frame; 30 by 40 by 5,5cm including frame
Provenance
Mr and Mrs Hendrik Diederiks, Pretoria.
Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 16 May 2011, lot 285.
Private Collection.
Exhibited
Pretoria Art Museum, Arcadia Park, Pretoria, Alexis Preller Retrospective Exhibition, 1972, cat. no. 47.
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