South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 6 February 2012

Part 3 - Furniture & Fine Art

Sold for

ZAR 28 964
Lot 655
  • Henry Symonds; White Christmas


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 964

About this Item

South African 1949-
White Christmas

signed and dated 88

oil on canvas
119 by 144cm excluding frame

Notes

Henry Symonds's White Christmas offers a post-colonial critique by drawing on icons of art history and popular culture. The foreground figure quotes British Pop artist Richard Hamilton’s ubiquitous screenprint, I’m dreaming of a white Christmas (1967) that incorporates a still from the Bing Crosby film Holiday Inn. Behind him lounges Madame de Pompadour, the influential mistress of King Louis XV as immortalised by celebrated court painter Francois Boucher.

Henry Symonds completed his undergraduate studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and gained his Master of Fine Arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, in 1999. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand, South Africa, the United States and Europe. He is represented by a number of works in the South African National Gallery. He is currently Dean of Instruction at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in Auckland, New Zealand.
 

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