Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 5 - 6 April 2022
Figuration: Past and Present
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
About this Item
South African 1886-1973
Portrait of a Woman with Headscarf
signed with the artist's initials; a Pretoria Art Museum label adhered to the reverse
charcoal on paper
45,5 by 37cm excluding frame; 70 by 59 by 3cm including frame
Provenance
Gifted to the current owner's mother-in-law, Vanna Janse van Rensburg (nee Verster), by the artist. Vanna was Maggie Laubser's god-daughter as her mother, Bettie Verster, and the artist were good friends.
Exhibited
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Maggie Laubser: Retrospective Exhibition, 1969.
Literature
Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Johannesburg: Perskor, illustrated in black and white on page 225, catalogue number 777.
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