Notes

The many sketches of clouds in the South African National Archives in Pretoria, and the significant number of oils featuring clouds beyond the landscape, attest tp Pierneef's fascination of this subject matter. The present lot depicts one such typical cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering over a flattened, wintery lowveld landscape with a shadowed foreground, and a slim line of deep blue mountains on the horizon that dramatically contrast with the reflecting sunlight. A similar work, Wolke, from 1952, forms part of the Pierneef collection in the La Motte Museum, Franschoek.