Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 111 524
About this Item
South African 1902-1985
Still Life with Roses, Books and a Photograph
1946
oil on canvas
64 by 53cm excluding frame
Notes
The present lot was painted in 1946 when Sumner was staying in Cape Town at the house of Professor Robert Harold Compton, Director of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens from 1919 - 1953, and founder of the Compton Herbarium.
Exhibited
Hoffer Art Gallery, Pretoria, 26 October 1982, catalogue number 64.
Literature
Die Transvaler, 19 October 1982, illustrated.
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