Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 8 October 2009

Part I - Paintings, Watercolours and Prints

Sold for

ZAR 111 400
Lot 95
  • Dorothy Kay; News


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 111 400

About this Item

Irish/South African 1886-1964
News

signed

pencil and watercolour
33 by 48cm excluding frame

Exhibited

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Dorothy Kay Retrospective Exhibition, 1982, cat no 114, under the title The Public Library

Literature

Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, A Biography, Everything You Do is A Portrait of Yourself, AM Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, p 180.  'Amongst her work currently on the annual exhibition in the Arts Hall, which she had helped to hang, was the subject titled News, of "the two little old men reading in the Library - it has been bought by Mr Buisman for £18.18 - I do think it is the best thing I have ever done..."'

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