Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part II - Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Sculpture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 100 000 - 150 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 245 080
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About this Item
South African 1873-1965
Cornfields, Kimpton
signed
oil on canvas
45 by 68cm excluding frame
Literature
cf Frieda Harmsen, The Women of Bonnefoi, The Story of the Everard Group, van Schaik, Pretoria, 1980, p 94, where a similar painting is illustrated.
Bertha Everard's compelling Cornfields (which hangs in the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg) was painted in 1924 when Bertha and her two daughters spent the summer painting wheatlands near Kimpton, a little village in Hertfordshire. This painting "reads as a pleasurable exercise, and it reveals the artist's intuitive skill in placing expressive brush strokes and orchestrating colour. Both paint and pigment are rich, the golden yellows, dark veridians and violet-tinged blues redolent of full, sultry summer." pp 94 and 95
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