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Lot 454

Johannes Meintjes
South African 1923-1980
Ketel met Droeë Takke (Kettle with Dry Branches)
signed and dated '73
oil on board
49 by 45cm

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In a review of Die Kunskamer exhibition in the Cape Argus, 19 March 1974, Eldred Green wrote of this work: "[The] juxtaposition of colours to produce gold is used again in No. 11, Still-Life with Kettle, the gold of the kettle against intense orange and intense red, with a more distant background of purples, violets, blacks and greens, an intense and valid statement about these colours."


Die Kunskamer, Cape Town, 12 - 23 March 1974, catalogue number 11.


Catalogue number JM 1140.

Estimate: R 50 000 - 70 000 

Sold for R 130 000
Which is R 147 784 incl Buyer's Premium and VAT

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