Irma Stern: Time|Line

Live Virtual Auction, 8 June 2022

Irma Stern: Time|Line
About the Session
Irma Stern: Time | Line is a single-artist sale of 140 lots devoted to this illustrious artist. The lots on offer range from oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings, ceramics and books and are presented chronologically, featuring works made in every decade from 1920 until the artist’s death in 1966.
 
The auction includes 124 artworks from the Irma Stern Trust Collection. Proceeds from the sale of these works will benefit the Irma Stern Trust Collection, housed in the much-loved Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town. Income derived from the sale will strengthen the Irma Stern Trust Collection for the future by preserving the core collection and making it accessible by developing the existing Irma Stern Trust website into an important research resource. 

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ZAR 796 600
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  • Irma Stern; Women Sewing
  • Irma Stern; Women Sewing
  • Irma Stern; Women Sewing
  • Irma Stern; Women Sewing
  • Irma Stern; Women Sewing
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ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
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ZAR 796 600

About this Item

Irma Stern
South African 1894-1966
Women Sewing

signed and dated 1939

gouache on paper
49 by 62cm excluding frame; 74,5 by 86,5 by 7cm including frame

Notes

Andrea Lewis comments on this image of two Cape Malay women sewing, “The tonal contrast of pink, red and orange saturate this image with femininity and softness. They capture the vitality of the fabrics that the women wore […] Colour impacted profoundly on Stern. Driven by the intensity of her feelings, her works reveal her appreciation of the subtle nuances that she found around her. She uncovered colours that were specific to individual settings – from the vibrancy of Madeira to the earth colours of the Natal landscape; from the eastern influences of Dakar to the rose colours of Malay women.”

Andrea Lewis, page 33.

Provenance

The Irma Stern Trust Collection, accession number 811.

Literature

Andrea Lewis (2006) Journeys to the Interior, Unseen Works by Irma Stern 1929-1939, Cape Town: Kaplan Kushlick Foundation, illustrated in colour on page 76, with the title Two Seamstresses.

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