Modern and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 7 November 2023
Evening
Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
About this Item
South African 1886-1973
Still Life with Arums and Blossoms
signed
gouache on watercolour board
53,5 by 37,5cm excluding frame; 67 by 51,5 by 4,5cm including frame
Notes
Most of the still lifes use arum lilies and they often fill the entire painted surface. The stately shapes of these flowers and the curved lines of their stems, as well as the imposing beauty of the calyxes, have all been judiciously harnessed to create the very lively and graceful character as a whole.
- Muller Ballot
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the current owner, on 6 January 1966.
Professor Danie Joubert collection, since 1966.
Literature
Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor, illustrated in black and white on page 327, cat. no. 1382.
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