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 39 830
Lot 68
  • Irma Stern; Seated Nude
  • Irma Stern; Seated Nude
  • Irma Stern; Seated Nude
  • Irma Stern; Seated Nude
  • Irma Stern; Seated Nude


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 39 830

About this Item

South African 1894-1966
Seated Nude

signed, dated 1951 and numbered 2; inscribed with the accession number in pencil on the reverse

etching on paper
image size: 22 by 18cm; sheet size: 24,5 by 19cm

Notes

“In Seated Nude, the trace of a second figure looking over her shoulder, and the turban of towelling around the nude’s head, might suggest the story of Bathsheba or Susannah and the Elders without illustrating it completely. Part of Stern’s search for spirituality at this time was to focus on her figures inner state rather than external description or narrative. The nude’s face and eyes are averted, avoiding contact with the viewer, while her torso is large and almost frontal in the format and hardly concealed by her arms crossed below her breasts.”1

1. Michael Godby (2021) Irma Stern Nudes, 1916-1965, Cape Town: Primavera Publishing, page 133.

Provenance

The Irma Stern Trust Collection, accession number 130/3.

Literature

Michael Godby (2021) Irma Stern Nudes, 1916-1965, Cape Town: Primavera Publishing, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 133, figure 8:5.

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