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Live Virtual Auction, 8 - 11 November 2020

Contemporary Art

Sold for

ZAR 284 500
Lot 677
  • Beezy Bailey; In the Purple Forest
  • Beezy Bailey; In the Purple Forest
  • Beezy Bailey; In the Purple Forest
  • Beezy Bailey; In the Purple Forest


Lot Estimate
ZAR 250 000 - 350 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 284 500

About this Item

South African 1962-
In the Purple Forest

signed and dated '07; inscribed with the title on the stretcher, and with the artist's name, title, and medium on an Everard Read, Cape Town gallery label adhered to the reverse

mixed media on canvas
170,5 by 250,5 by 3cm

Notes

'I tend not to plan what I paint ahead of my creations and, at times, I write poems that illustrate the images after I have painted them. In the Purple Forest is a typical 'Beezy' painting. It has components which often feature in my works, a surreal figurative subject set in an open landscape. The landscape here is based on the Namibian desert; I use my own photographs as reference. The pyramid was an image I used a lot in my earlier work. The main subject of the crazy woman in an extended unreal pose is inspired by the Egyptian goddess, Nut, who has fascinated me for many years. Her extraordinary shape, almost childlike, illustrates her all-encompassing command of the heavens, yet appears here as a modern woman, complete with handbag, as if out shopping.'

Beezy Bailey, September 2016.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 10 October 2016, lot 635.

Private Collection.

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