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. 

Sold for

ZAR 216 220
Lot 27
  • Irma Stern; Mother and Child
  • Irma Stern; Mother and Child
  • Irma Stern; Mother and Child


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 216 220

About this Item

South African 1894-1966
Mother and Child

signed and dated 1939

charcoal on paper laid down on card
60,5 by 45,5cm excluding frame

Provenance

The Irma Stern Trust Collection, accession number 810.

Literature

Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen and Irene Below (1996) Irma Stern und der Expressionismus, Afrika und Europa – Zeichnungen bis 1945, Berlin: Kerber Verlag, illustrated in colour on page 180 as catalogue number 91.

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