Douglas Portway
The Lovers
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 181 888
Auction Catalogue
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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