Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 5 - 6 April 2022

Figuration: Past and Present

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  • Fred Page; Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)
  • Fred Page; Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)
  • Fred Page; Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)
  • Fred Page; Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)
  • Fred Page; Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)
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ZAR 140 000 - 180 000
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About this Item

Fred Page
South African 1908-1984
Untitled (Figures with Brooms and Pelicans)

signed and dated 67

acrylic on board
50 by 65,5cm excluding frame; 61,5 by 77 by 3cm including frame

Notes

"In 1967 [the year the present lot was painted] Page was courted by art dealer Linda Goodman and moved to her Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. Author and critic Esmé Berman also purchased his work at this time and featured him in her book Art and Artists of South Africa. He has also started to market through the reliable and committed Cape Town art dealer Joe Wolpe [...] Observation suggest that Page's images tend to be owned by people who acquire them for their idiosyncratic qualities and for their peculiar take on life."1

1. Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright (2011) Fred Page: Ringmaster of the Imagination, Port Elizabeth: Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright, illustrated in colour on page 46.

Literature

Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright (2011) Fred Page: Ringmaster of the Imagination, Port Elizabeth: Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright, illustrated in colour on page 44, plate 94.

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