Important South African and International Art

Live Auction, 7 November 2016

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 181 888
Lot 217
  • Douglas Portway; The Lovers


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 181 888

About this Item

South African 1922-1993
The Lovers

signed and inscribed with the title on the reverse

oil on canvas
74,5 by 59,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Portway is perhaps better known for his large abstract canvases of translucent colour fields; his figural works are rare to say the least. The present lot, with its solid, fleshy figures, immediately calls to mind Picasso's neo-classical phases, as well as other European, post-War examples by, amongst others, André Derain, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse, each of which reflected the prevailing interest in Le rappel à l'ordre (a return to order).

Provenance

The Collection of the Late Mrs Liselotte Hardebeck.

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