5 December 2015

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5 December 2015
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5 December 2015
Session 2 | Fine Art
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P155 George Pemba, Xhosa Women in the Fields
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P01
Battiss, Walter Whall (SA 1906 - 1982 )
Waterfall in the Wind
White ink on black paper, signed, 27/10/81
34 x 49cm
R 12 000 – R 18 000
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P02
Griesel, Hennie (SA 1931 - )
Still Life with Sunflowers
Oil on board, signed, 81
119 x 89cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
-3-
P03
Mkhize, Johannes Fanozi (Chickenman) (SA 1959 - 1995)
Road Margin on any Freeway
Oil on masonite
58 x 23cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P04
Boonzaier, Gregoire Johannes (SA 1909 - 2005)
Devil’s Peak from District Six
Photolithograph, signed, numbered 83/130
37 x 45cm
R 800 – R 1 200
P05
Catherine, Norman Clive
(SA 1949 - )
Fook Island stamps
Screenprint, signed, numbered
83/120
50 x 66cm
R 2 500 – R 3 500
P06
Britz, Phillip (SA 20th C)
Clown
Oil on board, signed
57 x 42cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P07
P08
De Jongh, Marthinus Johannes (Tinus)
(SA 1885 - 1942)
Madge, Don (Donald James)
(SA 1920 - 1997)
Kirstenbosch Cape
Fishermen’s Cottages
Etching, signed
21 x 28cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
Oil on board, signed
34 x 49cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P09
Dali, Salvador
(Spanish 1904 - 1989)
Two Nude Ladies
Lithograph with gold leaf,
signed, edition E.A.
47 x 36cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
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P10
Rakgoathe, Daniel Sefudi (SA 1937 - 2004)
Composition Figures and Bird
pen and ink on paper, signed
42 x 57cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
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P11
Schimmel, Fred (SA 1928 - 2009)
Two Works: Blue Duck & Abstract Landscape
Screenprints, signed, 73 & 74, numbered 50/65 & 35/65
42 x 32cm & 29 x 58cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P12
Boshoff, Willem (SA 1951 - )
Untitled from the Ujusi project
Digital print, signed
Numbered 34/50
33 x 50cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P13
Hoefsloot, Tjeerd (Ted)
(SA 1930 - )
Near Ficksburg, O.F.S.
Oil on board, signed
44 x 59cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
-7-
P14
P15
Vorster, Gordon Frank
(SA 1924 - 1988)
Greenblatt, Francine Scialom
(SA 1951 - )
Two Zebras, monochrome
Interlinked
Watercolour on paper, signed
55 x 75cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
Mixed medium on paper, signed, 96
63 x 100cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P16
Clarke, Peter (SA 1929 - )
In the Late Afternoon
Coloured linocut, signed, artist proof
14 x 16cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
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P17
Battiss, Walter Whall
(SA 1906 - 1982 )
Four Figures, lithograph
Signed, numbered 20/50
22 x 22cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P18
P19
Oldert, Johannes (SA 1912 - 1984)
Hoefsloot, Tjeerd (Ted)
(SA 1930 - )
Farm House in Landscape
Oil on board, signed
16 x 21cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
Freestate Koppie
Oil on board, signed
44 x 59cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P20
Paravano, Dino
(SA 1935 - )
Umdoni Park, Natal
Oil on board, signed
44 x 59cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
P21
Mabaso, Dumisani Abraham (SA 1955 - )
Street scene with Figures
Etching, signed, 04, numbered T/P 2
75 x 55cm
R 2 000 – R 4 000
P22
Chape, Jean - George (French, 1913)
Nude
Lithograph Signed, numbered 31/100
45 x 38cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P23
De Jongh, Marthinus Johannes
(Tinus) (SA 1885 - 1942)
River, Paarl
Etching, signed
22 x 27cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P24
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam
(SA 1952 - )
The Blue
Carriage
Lithograph, signed, 96
Numbered 11/35
25 x 30cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P25
Battiss, Walter Whall
(SA 1906 - 1982 )
Sheet of Stamps
Photolithograph
41 x 53cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P26
Clarke, Peter (SA 1929 - )
Hanging Blossoms
Linocut, signed, 8.6.1961
18 x 13cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
P27
Magrotti, Ercole (Italian 1890 - 1967)
Busy Canal Scene
Oil on board, signed
38 x 48cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
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P28
Nel, Karel (SA 1955)
Boat of the Oblivious Bloom
Lithograph, signed, 92, numbered 18/50
31 x 26cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P29
Mashile, Colbert
(SA 1972 - )
Big Boy
Monotype, signed,
2012, numbered 1/
66 x 50cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
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P30
Coetzee, Herbert
Harold
(SA 1921 - )
Street Scene,
Rondebosch
Oil on board,
signed, 66
45 x 58cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P31
Verster, Andrew Clement
(SA 1937 -)
Still Life
Hand coloured etching, signed
92, artist Proof
100 x 70cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P32
Britz, Phillip (SA 20th C)
Two Works: Boy pushing
chickens in a Wheelbarrow
& Baby Bathing
Oil on board, signed
34 x 24cm & 23 x 33cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P33
Clarke, Peter
(SA 1929 - )
Thistledown
Linocut, signed,
numbered 34/34
13 x 10cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P34
Britz, Phillip (SA 20th C)
Two Works: Ballerina & Boy feeding Lamb
Oil on board, signed
34 x 24cm & 23 x 33cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P35
Klar, Otto (SA 1908 - 1994)
Fishermen’s Cottages
Oil on board, signed
14 x 51cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
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P36
Clarke, Peter
(SA 1929 - )
The Procession
Linocut, signed
artist proof
36 x 20cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
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P37
Battiss, Walter Whall (SA 1906 - 1982 )
Three Figures
Pen, ink and wash on paper, signed
18 x 27cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P38
Brittan, Matthew (SA 20th C)
Dionysus Cycle
Oil on canvas
46 x 29cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P39
Mohl, John Koenakeefe (SA 1903 - 1985)
Sangoma Dance, W, TVL, SA
Oil on board, signed and Inscribed, in the 20th Century
71 x 56cm
R 15 000 – R 25 000
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P40
Battiss, Walter
Whall (SA 1906 1982)
Ote Huri
etc. Tahiti
Pencil on paper,
signed
27 x 35cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P41
Nel, Karel (SA 1955)
Somewhere A Brahmandae Blooms
Lithograph, signed, 92, printer’s proof
37 x 32cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P42
De Bliquy, Leon
Paul (SA 1943 - )
Two Works:
Conversation and
The Gold of Our
Being
Charcoal and
lithograph, signed, 78
& 72,
numbered 2/20
55 x 45cm & 53 x41
cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P43
Mahlangu, Esther (SA 1935)
Penalty Kicks
Lithograph, signed, 2010
numbered 160/210
61 x 80cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P44
Mautloa, Pat (SA 1952 - )
After Shopping
Colour lithograph, signed, 99
Numbered 15/50
57 x 77cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P45
Hlungwani, Phillemon (SA 1971)
Ndhwalo Varingetela emakatleni, It’s heavy but I’m trying
Etching, signed, 2003, edition A.P.
52 x 75cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
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P46
P47
Gradwell-Slabbert, Margaret Louise
(SA 1956 - )
Cruise, Wilma (SA 1945 - )
Fish ad Foe
Monotype, signed, 2006,
85 x 62cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
Mixed media on paper, signed, 98
72 x 93cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
Four Figures
P48
P49
Britz, Phillip (SA 20th C)
Sumner, Maud Eyston
(SA 1902 - 1985)
Girl Playing with Lambs
Oil on board, signed
29 x 39cm
R 800 – R 1 200
Swans on Lake
Lithograph, signed, numbered 10/250
27 x 36cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
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P50
Timlin, William
Mitcheson
(SA 1893 - 1943)
Cape Dutch
House
Watercolour, Signed,
1921
14 x 19cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
P51
After Sibiya, Lucky Madlo (SA 1942 -1999 )
Abstract Composition
Colour lithograph, signed, dated 71 in the print, numbered 4/50
88 x 64cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P52
Chiurai, Kudzanai (Zimbabwean 1981 - )
The Black President
Colour photolithograph, signed, 09, from an edition of 50 Published by the
Goodman Gallery
63 x 43cm
R 1 200 – R 1 800
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P53
Paravano, Dino (SA 1935 - )
Seascape
Oil on board, signed
50 x 75cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
P54
P55
Le Roux, Isabel (SA 1943 - )
Le Roux, Isabel (SA 1943 - )
Angelic Shore
Lovers beneath a Tree
Pen and ink on paper, signed
98, 41 x 30cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
Pen and ink on paper, signed
98, 41 x 30cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
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P56
Bawcombe, Philip (SA 1906 - 2000)
Corner Shop, 20th Street, Vrededorp
Pastel and gouache on paper, signed
40 x 50cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P57
Boys, George
(SA 1930 - )
Cosmos
Oil on board, signed
96 x 95cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
P58
Kay, Dorothy Moss (SA 1886 - 1964)
Malay Driver
Etching, signed
27 x 20cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P59
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam
(SA 1952 - )
Man Walking
alongside a Car
Charcoal on paper,
signed, 07
27 x 35,5cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P60
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam
(SA 1952 - )
At the Traffic
Light
Charcoal on paper,
signed, 07
27 x 35,5cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
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P61
Clarke, Peter (SA 1929 - )
Boys Struggling with Escaping Birds
Linocut, signed, 22.6.1959, numbered 25/46
16 x 24cm
R 12 000 – R 16 000
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P62
Grobler, Diek (SA 1964 - )
Two Works: The Man who would be
King & The Man who would be King
Down
Scarperboard, signed, 94
121 x 60cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P63
Hlungwani, Phillemon (SA 1971-)
Emarhumbini ya ka Xinwana
Etching, signed, 2005, edition A.P.
46 x 73cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
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P64
Hlungwani, Phillemon (SA 1971)
Laha Kuyaka Moya Nandzilo uya kondi
Etching, signed, 2005, edition A.P.
62 x 82cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
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P65
Tobiasse, Theo
(Israeli/French, 1927 - )
People de Venice
Colour lithograph, signed, edition E.A.
56 x 76cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P66
Clarke, Peter (SA 1929 - )
Red Apples
Coloured linocut, signed, numbered 48/50
11,5 x 11cm
R 5 000 – R 7 000
P67
Battiss, Walter Whall
(SA 1906 - 1982 )
Female nude and Man
Lithograph, signed, first
proof
16 x 26cm
R 5 000 – R 7 000
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P68
P69
Cilliers-Barnard, Bettie
(SA 1914 - )
Battiss, Walter Whall
( SA 1906 - 1982 )
Composition of Heads
Running Rainbow
Screenprint, signed, 79, numbered 151/250
39 x 27cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
Lithograph, numbered A.P. 14/20
and signed by Giles
37 x 48cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P70
P66
Battiss, Walter Whall
( SA 1906 - 1982 )
Water Melon Eater
Photolithograph, numbered 1/1
and signed by Giles
51 x 41cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P71
Büchner, Carl (SA 1921 - 2003)
Abstract with Palm Tree
Mixed media on paper, signed
30 x 25cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P72
Romm, Nina (SA 1949 - )
Quilt I
Mixed media on board, signed
101 x 131cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
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P73
Ivanoff, Victor (SA 1909 - 1995)
Horse Pulling Sleigh in the Snow
Oil on board, signed, 69
69, 65 x 120cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
P74
P75
Desmond, Nerine (SA 1908 - 1993)
Maseko, Joe (Joseph Ramapulane) (SA
1936 - 2008)
View of Table Mountain
Watercolour, signed
26 x 37cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
Township Scene with Figures
Pastel on paper, signed, 05
43 x 64cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P76
Bone, Sir Muirhead (British 1876-1953)
My Studio at Steep, Petersfield
Oil on panel, signed
34 x 26cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
- 34 -
P77
Schadeberg, Jürgen (SA 1931 - )
A Visit to a Farm
Gelatin silver print, signed
34 x 34cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
- 35 -
P78
Van Rensburg,
Derric
(SA 1952 - )
Klein Constantia
Oil on canvas, signed
21 x 36cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P79
Mccaw,
Terence John
(SA 1913 - 1978)
Cattle and
Bluegums
Oil on board, signed
50 x 39cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
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P80
Colquhoun, Robert (British 1914-1962)
Women with a leaping Cat
Lithograph, signed, numbered 32/80
41 x 29cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P81
Hoydonckx, Rik (Belgium 1924 - )
Homage to Francis Bacon
Etching, signed, numbered E.A. 3/15
36 x 29cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P82
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - )
Underground
Lithograph, signed, 96, numbered 11/30
40 x 26cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P83
Zerffi, Florence (SA 1882-1962)
Street In Malay Quarter Cape Town
Etching, signed, 1920
23 x 32cm
R 800 – R 1 200
P84
Lieberman, Kim (SA 1969 - )
In Universe
Etching, signed, 2012, numbered EV 4/22
80 x 70cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
- 38 -
P85
Paravano, Dino (SA 1935 - )
Row of Cottages
Oil on board, signed
50 x 75cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
- 39 -
P86
Barker, Wayne (SA 1963 - )
Reclining woman
Watercolour, signed, 2007
20 x 17cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P87
Mautloa, Pat (SA 1952 - )
Trolley Driver
Collage on paper, signed,12
43 x 36cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P88
Douglas, Frank (SA 1907 - 1975)
Harbour Scene
Oil on board, signed
45 x 60cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P89
Barker, Wayne (SA 1963 - )
Three Works: Untitled
Oil, mixed media and found objects, signed, 08
35 x 35cm each
R 20 000 – R 30 000
This triptych of Dada style assemblage by Wayne Barker seems to encapsulate a sense of the artist’s familiar
irreverence beneath the skin of the camouflaged objects taped down and whitewashed to form an enigmatic surface.
The objects themselves disappear into nothingness, but peak out through the stencilled letters, which float in another
realm almost unaware of what lies below. The range of words – mars, faith, fun, country, face, one – are scattered
around like an exploded wordsearch, some still back to front and slightly atilt. The impudence of these somewhat glib
and incoherent words are almost a deterrent to looking closer, but it is in the small details that Barker begins to allow
more serious engagements: the word ‘consciousness’ is scrawled in small untidy handwriting above a line-up of small
plastic figures (much like the miniature toy army men) which hang precariously from the edge of the central plane. In
each of the three compositions we see similar plastic figures, one standing triumphantly on a crumbled up bank note.
Some of the words, which may read like nonsense are also worth a closer inspection – ‘obdachlos’ stencilled below the
word ‘faith’ is German for ‘homeless’ and ‘ohne’ to the right of the word ‘one’ is translated as ‘without’ or ‘in the absence
of’. To this riddle there is no clear answer, but perhaps this is Barker’s point – for us to dig beneath the first impression
of how things seem.
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P90
Schreuders, Claudette (SA 1973 - )
Untitled: Two Figures
Etching, signed, 2001, numbered 17/25
35 x 30cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P91
Schreuders, Claudette (SA 1973 - )
Untitled: Two Figures
Etching, signed, 2001, numbered 17/25
35 x 30cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P92
Manyoni, Bhekisani (SA 1945 - )
Elephant Rider
Carved wood
137 x 160 x 50cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
- 42 -
P93
Battiss, Walter Whall ( SA 1906 - 1982 )
Still Life vase of Flowers, La Dique
Watercolour, signed, 24.7.72
41 x 29cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
- 43 -
P94
Kentridge,
William Joseph
(SA 1955 - )
The First
Exhibition Poster,
Market Theatre
Gallery
Screenprint on brown
paper, signed, 1979
67 x 43cm
R 20 000 – R 30 000
A spot-lit figure gestures dramatically from the depths of a dark three-walled pit in a poster advertising William
Kentridge’s first solo exhibition at the Market Theatre Gallery in 1979. The famous Pit series, as it is often now called,
was perhaps an early signifier of Kentridge’s on going love affair with the intersection between drawing and theatre.
The ‘pit’ here refers quite literally to a stage, on which a tortured actor is perhaps too literally taking on his role. The
way in which Kentridge has almost carved and sculpted the figure in ink, carefully slicing out the highlights, reinforces
this sense of torment as the performer glares up to the silhouetted figures above. What remains unclear is who his
tormentors are: the onlookers to whom he gestures, or us, casting our gaze upon him from the safety of the gallery.
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P95
Skotnes, Cecil Edwin Frans (SA 1926 - 2009)
Abstract Composition
Mixed media on board, signed, 81
44 x 47cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
P96
Voigt, Walter
(SA 1971 - )
Landscape
Oil on board,
signed, 03
36 x 75cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
- 45 -
P97
Ampenberger, Iris (SA 1916-1981)
Sisters holding Flowers
Oil on board, signed
57 x 44cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
- 46 -
P98
Miró, Joan (Spanish 1893-1983)
Fish
Lithograph, signed, numbered HC XI/XIII
31 x 34cm
R 20 000 – R 30 000
- 47 -
P99
Stone, Simon Patrick (SA 1952 - )
Jeppe Street Post Office
Oil on card, signed
28 x 49cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
P100
Spears, Frank Sydney
(SA 1906 - 1991)
Still Life with Red
Flowers
Oil on board, signed
74 x 55cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
- 48 -
P101
Klar, Otto (SA 1908 - 1994)
Landscape with Boulders
Oil on board, signed
17 x 62cm
R 12 000 – R 18 000
- 49 -
P102
Dumas, Marlene (SA 1953 - )
Before
Lithograph, signed, 1995, numbered 99/100
60 x 39,5cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
- 50 -
P103
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - )
Gossipers
Collage, signed, 12
39 x 63cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
P104
Diedericks, Chris (SA 20thC )
Far from the Eye of Heaven
Marley tile print, signed, Paris 1995
Artist Proof
29 x 19cm
R 800 – R 1 200
- 51 -
P106
Clarke, Peter
(SA 1929 - )
Iris
Linocut, signed,
numbered 6/36
43 x 34cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
P107
Greaves, Constance Helen
(SA 1882 - 1966)
Two Works: Portrait of a
Lady with headscarf and
Landscape
Watercolours, signed
26 x 23cm & 12 x 21cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
- 52 -
P108
Dumas, Marlene (SA 1953 - )
Waterende Vrouw
Lithograph, signed, 1996, numbered 38/100
64 x 50cm
R 30 000 – R 40 000
- 53 -
P109
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam (SA
1952 - )
Mangaung,
Bloemfontein 1
Mixed media and
collage
40 x 51cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
P110
Goodman,
Robert Gwelo
(SA 1871 - 1939)
Cape Landscape
Watercolour,
35 x 42cm
R15 000 – R20 000
- 54 -
P111
P112
P113
Catherine, Norman Clive
(SA 1949 - )
Catherine, Norman Clive
(SA 1949 - )
Catherine, Norman Clive
(SA 1949 - )
Untitled from
“Animal Instincts”
Untitled from
“Animal Instincts”
Untitled from
“Animal Instincts”
Colour digital print, signed,
numbered 36/45
15 x 12cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
Colour digital print, signed,
numbered 36/45
15 x 12cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
colour digital print, signed,
numbered 36/45
15 x 12cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P114
Victor, Diane
Veronique
(SA 1964 - )
The Lion, the
Man and the
Fence
Etching, signed, 06,
numbered 8/25
25 x 32cm
R 4 000 – R 5 000
- 55 -
P115
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - )
Figures and Cyclist
Mixed media and collage, signed, 92
18 x 26cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P116
Battiss Walter Whall ( SA 1906 - 1982 )
Abstract Composition in Black and White
Black ink on paper, signed, 66
29 x 42cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
P117
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - )
Bill Evans
Etching, signed, 10, numbered 5/20
image size 13 x 14cm
R 1 200 – R 1 800
- 56 -
P118
Van Der Merwe, Eben
(SA 1932 - )
Still Life Flowers and Bowl
of Fruit
Oil on board, signed, 98
33 x 27cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
P119
Zeelie, Adelio
Zagni
(SA 1911 - 1991)
Hermanus
Oil on board, signed,
79
39 x 50cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
- 57 -
P120
Battiss,
Walter Whall
(SA 1906 - 1982 )
Barkly West,
Donkeys,
Lithograph, signed,
numbered 33/50
38,5 x 52cm
R 4 000 – R 5 000
P121
P122
Ferri, Fleur (SA 1926-2004)
Stone, Simon Patrick (SA 1952 - )
Sunflowers
Composition with Cactus
Oil on board, signed
66 x 44,5cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
Pastel and gouache on paper, signed, 31.1.86
48 x 34cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
- 58 -
P123
Pinker, Stanley (SA 1924-2012)
Young Couple
Charcoal on paper, signed
48 x 48cm
R 18 000 – R 22 000
- 59 -
P124
Solomon, Gladstone (SA 1880 - 1965)
Portrait of a Lady in red dress
Oil on canvas, signed
60 x 50cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P125
Abrams, Lionel (SA 1931 - 1997)
Artist on his way to Work I (Cezanne)
Oil on canvas, signed, 84
99 x 122cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
- 60 -
P126
Kumalo, Sydney Alex (SA 1935 - 1988)
Dancing Figures
Pastel on paper, signed, 73
75 x 55cm
R 5 000 – R 7 000
P127
P128
Strydom, Colijn
(SA 20th C)
Roworth, Edward (Prof) (SA 1880 - 1964)
Abstract
Composition
Watercolour, signed, 1956
17 x 31cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
Mixed media
on paper, signed,
2010
70 x 50cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
Evening Devon Valley Stellenbosch
P129
Loubser, Ryan (SA 1977 - )
Hanover Street Cubistic
Pastel on paper, signed, 2013
28 x 41cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
- 61 -
P130
Bell, Deborah Margaret (SA 1957 - )
Vanity
Drypoint etching, signed, 2005, numbered 29/30
53 x 39cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
- 62 -
P131
Bell, Deborah
Margaret (SA 1957 - )
Vanity II
Drypoint etching,
signed, 2005, numbered 29/30
53 x 39cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
P132
Meerkotter, Dirk Adriaan (SA 1922 - )
Abstract Composition
Colour lithograph, signed, 74, numbered 145/250
46 x 66cm
R 1 200 – R 1 800
- 63 -
P133
Victor, Diane Veronique (SA 1964 - )
Portrait
Smoke drawing, signed
58 x 42cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
- 64 -
P134
Maqhubela, Louis (SA 1939 - )
Birth
Mixed media on paper, signed, 71
59 x 66cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
- 65 -
P135
Mashile, Colbert (SA 1972 - )
Composition in Blue, Black and Grey
Mixed media on paper, signed, 02
75 x 53cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
- 66 -
P136
Victor, Diane Veronique
(SA 1964 - )
Sky God meets the
Ringmaster
Screenprint, signed, 95, numbered 12/30
59 x 41cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
P137
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam
(SA 1952 - )
Study an
Exhibition
Opening
Charcoal, signed, 08,
38 x 50cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
- 67 -
P138
Coetzee, Cyril (SA 1959 - )
Untitled III
Oil on board, signed
99 x 83cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
- 68 -
P139
Boshoff, Adriaan (SA 1935 - 2007)
Figure Walking down a Street
Oil on board, signed
22 x 16,5cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
- 69 -
P140
Boshoff, Adriaan (SA 1935 - 2007)
Autumn Street Scene
Oil on board, signed
22 x 16,5cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
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P141
Meyer, Carl Walter (SA 1965 - )
At the Bar
Oil on canvas, signed, 08
49 x 59cm
R 20 000 – R 30 000
- 71 -
P142
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Man Holding his Head Aloft no. 518
Oil on carved wood, signed
height 34cm
R 7 000 – R 10 000
- 72 -
P143
P144
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Rabinowitz, Hym (SA 1920-2009)
Glazed stoneware ginger jar
Decorated with Leaf and Berry
Glazed stoneware hexagonal bowl
signed
height 33cm
24 x 4cm
R 700 – R 1 000
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P145
P146
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Glazed stoneware rectangular platter
Brown glazed stoneware vase
signed
42 x 28 x 5cm
signed
height 28,5cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
R 800 – R 1 200
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P147
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Doubled headed figure with Skull, no 005/037
Oil on carved wood, signed
height 32cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
- 74 -
P148
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - ) and
Hodgins, Robert Griffiths (SA 1920 - 2010)
Friends
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, 07, signed by Sam Nhlengethwa and inscribed” This is one of a few
unsigned collaborations of Robert Hodgins and I around 2006/2007”
50 x 60cm
R 40 000 – R 60 000
Friends is one of the many collaborations between Robert Hodgins and Sam Nhlengethwa through the late 1990s and
2000s. In this image, the two seem to be imaged in an interior space (similar to those in Nhlengethwa’s Tribute series)
where they are sharing a glass of wine. On the wall above them hanging on the wall is one of Nhlengethwa’s own
photocollages: Pass Raid 2004, which in the same year showed at the Goodman Gallery in a show titled Glimpses of
the Fifties and Sixties. Friends was probably one of the works made for the collaborative show between the two artists
which was exhibited at Gallery AOP in 2007.
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P149
Blignaut, Belinda (SA 1968 - )
Mannequin
Height 136cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P150
Bosch, Essias (SA 1923 - 2010)
Cream glazed stoneware vase
height 30,5cm
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P151
Rorkes Drift, Mbatha, E.L. (SA 20th Century)
Glazed stoneware Chicken
Signed, no. U-59.88
18 x 26 x 12cm
R 1 200 – R 1 600
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P152
Segogela, Johannes Mashego (SA 1936 - )
Man and Lady
Oil on carved wood
Heights 26cm & 29cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
P153
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Two cylindrical stoneware vases
Signed
22cm & 33cm height
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P154
Scott, Richard (SA 1968 - )
Cat Puzzle
Signed, numbered 35/250
25 x 25cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
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P155
Pemba, George Mnyalaza Milwa (SA 1912 - 2001)
Xhosa Women in the Fields
Oil on board, signed, 75
45 x 60cm
R 200 000 – R 250 000
While the majority of George Pemba’s works from his six decade career are of Xhosa women, most are portraits and
very few depict a group of women as we see them in this painting. In his typical social realist style, Pemba portrays the
three female figures harvesting wheat at the end of a long day. As the sun sets behind them, we see the dramatised
gesture of the woman on the left wiping the sweat from her brow. In the earlier stages of his oeuvre, Pemba was inclined
to capture the detailed, emotional and honest images of the people he travelled to meet, but from the 1970s he tended
to amplify the harsh reality of rural and urban life for black people under Apartheid. This understanding might suggest
a slightly less naturalistic interpretation of the painting, which shows the three women quite elaborately adorned with
beadwork while tending their crops. Perhaps rather than a simple depiction of the everyday, Pemba is pointing us to a
more metaphoric reading of rural life, of the quiet dignity with which people endure despite the circumstances.
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P156
Mabasa, Noria (SA 1938)
Carved wooden figure
signed
height 131cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
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P157
Villa, Edoardo (SA 1915 - 2011)
Totem
Painted steel, signed, 2005
height 115cm
R 50 000 – R 70 000
- 80 -
P158
Bosch, Essias (SA 1923 - 2010)
Rectangular deep bowl decorated with Birds
55 x 48 x 6cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P159
Botes, Conrad (SA 1969 - )
Untitled: Orange and Yellow Face
Oil on reverse glass, signed, 2001
25 x 24,5cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
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P160
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Glazed stoneware charger with
blue leaf decoration
Signed
48 x 7cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P161
Mangoma, Richard
(SA 1953 - )
Peace of Life
Carved wood, signed
66 x 48 x 23cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P162
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Suited Man Swallowing a Cat, no. 005/050
Oil on carved wood, signed
height 32cm
R 8 000 – R 12 000
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P163
Mabasa, Noria (SA 1938)
Seated clay Figure
Signed
height 33cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P164
Mabasa, Noria (SA 1938)
Lady with pot on her Head
Clay, signed
height 23cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P165
P166
Maljevic, Maja (SA 1973 - )
Maljevic, Maja (SA 1973 - )
Cat
Pink Face
Oil on canvas on board, signed
25 x 20cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
Oil on canvas on board, signed
25 x 20cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
P167
P168
Maljevic, Maja (SA 1973 - )
Maljevic, Maja (SA 1973 - )
Reclining Figure
Clown
Oil on canvas on board, signed
23 x 30cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
Oil on canvas on board, signed
30 x 23cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
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P169
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Glazed stoneware charger in shades of brown, signed
49 x 13cm
R 1 200 – R 1 600
P170
Nel, Hylton
(SA 1940 - )
Adam and Eve
Ceramic bowl, signed,
25.3.97
23 x 8cm
R 7 000 – R 9 000
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P171
Van Den Berg, Clive (SA 1956 - )
Eleven works: Full set Farewells - Introduction,
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 etchings, signed, 6, numbered 12/25
25 x 19cm and 21 x 23cm
R 12 000 – R 16 000
- 87 -
P172
Boshoff, Tinus
(SA 20th century)
Two Works:
Cactus
Ceramic and collage
and mixed media,
signed
53 x 79cm &
75 x 71cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P173
Jansen Van Vuuren, Louis
(SA 1949 - )
Star
Etching, signed, 1996, numbered
18/50
35 x 48cm
R 1 200 – R 1 800
P174
Hlungwani, Phillemon (SA 1971)
Ekaya, Kaya Kokwana Vohiwa
Etching, signed, 2004, numbered 3/25
25 x 84cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
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P175
Sales, Lyndi (SA 1973 - )
Untitled
Etching, signed, 95, numbered 2/10
34 x 47cm
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P176
Blom, Wim
(SA 1927 - )
Still Life with
Vase and Fruit
Acrylic on paper laid
on board, signed, 57
42 x 51cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P177
Lemaoana,
Lawrence (SA
1982 - ) & Mautloa,
Pat (SA 1952 - )
Two Works: Men
in Pink & Profile
of an African Man
Lithographs, signed,
numbered 68/100 (dated
06) & 69/100 (dated 04)
35 x 29cm each
(unframed)
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P178
Battiss, Walter Whall (SA 1906 - 1982 )
Two Works: Riverside and Yachts at
Hartebeespoort Dam
Photolithographs, numbered 51/200 & 52/200,
signed by Giles, 36 x 27cm & 39 x 35cm (unframed)
R 1 000 – R 2 000
P179
Skotnes, Cecil Edwin Frans
(SA 1926 - 2009)
Four woodcut prints from the
Shaka series
Signed, 73, numbered 164/225
44 x 27cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P180
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Red Rubber Neck Too Exhibition Poster 2006
Signed, numbered 29/120
80 x 57cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P181
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Fook Island Portfolio: Five works and cover
Screenprints, signed, numbered 78/100
37,5 x 46,5cm & 70 x 48,5cm (unframed)
R 15 000 – R 20 000
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P182
P183
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
Catherine, Norman Clive (SA 1949 - )
A Tribute to King Ferd the Third by
Norman King Norman, The Luminous
Fook Mook
A Tribute to King Ferd the Third by
Norman King Norman, Rare Gaboob
Photolithograph, signed, numbered 55/100
78 x 48,5cm (unframed)
R 1 500 – R 2 500
Photolithograph, signed, numbered 6/100
70 x 48cm (unframed)
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P184
Nhlengethwa,
Jabulane Sam
(SA 1952 - )
Loneliness III
Etching, signed, 06,
numbered 15/30
78 x 94cm (unframed)
R 3 000 – R 5 000
- 92 -
P185
Vasarely, Victor
(French/
Hungarian,
1906-1997)
Two Works:
Unsigned
Screenprint 3 & 4
65 x 50cm each
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P186
Neustetter,
Marcus
(SA 1976 - )
Two works:
unframed
signed, 2012,
numbered 4/10
50 x 50cm (unframed)
R 1 200 – R 1 800
P187
Lieberman, Kim (SA 1969 - )
Every Interaction Interrupts the Future
Exhibition poster 2003, signed, numbered 12/120
84 x 25cm (unframed)
R 1 000 – R 1 500
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P188
Kadishman, Menashe
(Israeli 1932 - 2015)
Untitled: Sheep
Serigraph and etching, signed,
numbered 40/65
59 x 60cm (unframed)
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P189
Kadishman, Menashe
(Israeli 1932 - 2015)
Untitled: Landscape with
painted yellow square
Serigraph and etching, signed,
edition A.P.
54 x 76cm (unframed)
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P190
Siopis, Penny (SA 1953 - )
Passions and Panics exhibition poster 2005
Signed, numbered 36/120
67 x 82cm (unframed)
R 1 000 – R 2 000
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P191
Marasela, Senzeni
(SA 1977 - )
Theodora Comes to
JHB 7
Pencil and watercolour on
paper, signed, 2004
23 x 30cm (unframed)
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P192
Marasela, Senzeni
(SA 1977 - )
Theodora Comes to
JHB 8
pencil and watercolour on
paper, signed, 2004
23 x 30cm (unframed)
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P193
Marasela, Senzeni
(SA 1977 - )
Theodora Comes to
JHB 9
Pencil and watercolour on
paper, signed, 2004
23 x 30cm (unframed)
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P194
P195
Mohl, John Koenakeefe (SA 1903 - 1985)
Koloane, David (SA 1938 - )
Portrait of a man
Commuters
Pastel on paper, signed, 1974, inscribed
Breakers Hotel, Polo Beach, FL
37 x 26cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
Etching, signed, 08, numbered 5/25
56 x 66cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P196
Skotnes, Pippa
Ann (SA 1957 -)
Four works
from The White
Wagon Series
Etchings, signed,
92/93, numbered AP
II/V
61 x 51cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
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P197
Zulu, Sandile (SA 1960 - )
Elementary Units, Space and Interrelationship
Fire, water, air, earth and metal on paper, signed, 2002
60 x 77cm
R 10 000 – R 13 000
- 97 -
P198
Bell, Deborah Margaret
(SA 1957 - )
Ulysses Odyssey
Etching, signed, 99
numbered 2/20
55 x 37cm
R 10 000 – R 13 000
P199
Blom, Wim
(SA 1927 - )
Pazz Mentana,
Florence
Oil on paper, signed, 57
43 x 63cm
R 5 000 – R 7 000
- 98 -
P200
Camus, Gustave
(Belgian
1914-1984)
The Crab
Lithograph, signed,
numbered 22/100
32 x 53cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
P201
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane
Sam (SA 1952 - )
Team Leaders III
Lithograph, signed, 96
numbered 11/40
31 x 38cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P202
After Sibiya,
Lucky Madlo
(SA 1942 -1999 )
Pair of works
Colour photolithographs,
signed, dated 78 and 84 in
the print, numbered 5/50
& 6/50
88 x 64cm each
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P203
Diedericks, Chris (SA 1965 - )
Agneli nos inter sunt
Pastel and mixed media on paper, signed
128 x 29cm
R 5 000 – R 7 000
P204
Van Rensburg, Derric (Sa 1952 - )
Sandy Bay
Oil on canvas, signed
90 x 120cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
- 100 -
P205
Scully, Laurence Vincent (Larry) (SA 1922 - 2002)
Abstract Composition
Oil on canvas, signed, 74
90 x 121cm
R 15 000 – R 20 000
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P206
Dyaloyi, Ricky
(SA 1974 - )
Cross Over II
Oil on canvas, signed
58 x 89cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P207
Kors, Stanislaw
(Polish 1935 - 2002)
Abstract Composition
Oil on canvas, signed, 86
120 x 110cm
R 4 000 – R 7 000
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P208
Derrick, Tracey (SA 1961 - )
Two Works: Waters of Life #I & II
Black and white photographs, signed, 94, numbered 1/25
25 x 37cm each
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P209
Coleman, Trevor
(SA 1936 - )
Opus Magnus
Acrylic on canvas,
repair to top right,
signed
152 x 122cm
R 10 000 – R 15 000
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P210
Clarke, Peter
(SA 1929 - )
Insect
Woodcut, signed,
numbered 8/30
12 x 12cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
P211
Penn, Richard (SA 1976 - )
Two Works: Field and Spor
Etchings, signed, numbered 20/20 & 4/15
40 x 27cm each
R 1 500 – R 2 500
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P212
Nxumalo, Derrick
(SA 1962 - )
Prisms
Acrylic on paper, signed,
1996
40 x 65cm
R 3 000 – R 4 000
P213
Saoli, Winston
(SA 1950 - 1995)
Lovers
Oil on canvas, signed, 95
62 x 79cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P214
Berman, Kim (SA 1960 - )
Two Works: Haystack Series I & II
Collograph, signed, 96, numbered 4/5 and 2/5
31 x 43cm each
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P215
Harrs, Hannes (SA 1927 - 2006)
Couple
Colour woodcut, signed, 70, numbered 54/55
49 x 61cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P216
Erasmus, Stephan (SA 20thC )
Wasteland
Screenprint, signed, 2009, numbered 11/20
20 x 120cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P217
Mashile, Colbert (SA 1972 - )
Dikgomo
Lithograph, signed, 03, numbered 4/25
75 x 54cm
R 4 000 – R 6 000
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P218
Mautloa, Pat (SA 1952 - )
Two Works: Faces
Mixed media and collage on paper
signed, 09
30 x 22cm each
R 10 000 – R 15 000
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P219
Emmanuel, Paul
(SA 1969 - )
Phone Sense
Hand coloured
Lithograph, signed, 98,
numbered 1/20
35 x 50cm
R 2 000 – R 4 000
P220
Büchner, Carl Adolph (SA 1921 - 2003)
Two Works: Hand Studies
Charcoal on paper, signed
19 x 28cm each
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P221
Spilhaus, Nita (SA 1878 - 1967)
Voortrekker Wagon
Etching, signed
9 x 14cm
R 800 – R 1 200
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P222
Amshewitz, John Henry (SA 1882 - 1942)
Man with Walking stick and Elderly Lady
Mixed media on paper, signed
15 x 20cm
R 1 000 – R 1 500
P223
Laubser, Maggie (Maria
Magdalena) (SA 1886 - 1973)
Peacock
Pencil on paper, signed
18 x 27cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P224
Woodborne, Judy (SA 1966 - )
Three works: A Mask Discovery, Jugglers & South African Circus
Etching and mezzotints, signed, 97/98, numbered 11/30, 2/30 & 18/30
17 x 12cm, 35 x 25cm & 42 x 33cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P225
De Jongh, Gabriel (SA 1913 - 2004)
River Beneath Mountains
Oil on canvas, signed
45 x 60cm
R 12 000 – R 16 000
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P226
De Jongh, Gabriel (SA 1913 - 2004)
Cottage Beneath Mountains
Oil on canvas, signed
45 x 60cm
R 12 000 – R 16 000
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P227
Michelow, Berenice (SA 1930 - )
Two Works: Untitled and Exit
Screenprint, signed, 1979/1982, numbered 14/33 & 16/29
`50 x 45cm each
R 1 500 – R 2 500
P228
Barker, Wayne
(SA 1963 - )
Ayoba
Lithograph, signed,
2010, numbered 1/3
114 x 113cm
R 5 000 – R 8 000
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P229
Nhlengethwa, Jabulane Sam (SA 1952 - )
Ode to Keith Jarrett
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, signed, 96
76 x 101cm
R 40 000 – R 60 000
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Debuted at Documenta 13, this intriguing sculpture is one of a set of nine other similar bronze sculptures. In each there
are at least two clear images that emerge when viewed from different angles – hence the title Rebus, which refers to an
allusionary puzzle composed of both words and images. Included in the series are images of a telephone, a coffee pot,
a tree and of course a megaphone, all which draw on and reference the repository of image-characters in Kentridge’s
oeuvre. In this particular sculpture, a megaphone disappears into a black square as you move around it, the rim of the
device lingering like a glaring eye. This modus operandi references the large scale public artwork on which Kentridge
collaborated with Gerhard Marx – Firewalker (2009) in which a collaged figure carrying a brazier emerges only when
viewed from a certain angle as one drives down the Queen Elizabeth Bridge into the CBD of Johannesburg. Considering
the proliferation of these kinds of works particularly in public sculpture – see for example Marco Cianfanelli’s portrait
of Nelson Mandela in Howick – it seems that artists are pointing out the fixity of our viewpoints. Kentridge eloquently
explains that these works are “hieroglyphs, of sorts, in which an invitation is extended to the viewer to make sense
of the nonsense — and what is offered is not a natural interpretation, but rather the possibility of sense. There is an
invitation to make our own rebus from the elements, a narrative sentence from the different pieces.”
Reference: 1. http://www.candicebermangallery.co.za/artists/william-kentridge/rebus-cube-1476-1477-detail
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Kentridge, William Joseph (SA 1955 - )
Megaphone, from the Rebus Series
Bronze, signed with the artist’s
initials and numbered 9/12
height 29,5cm
R 300 000 – R 400 000
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P231
Villa, Edoardo (SA 1915 - 2011)
Encounter with Colour no. 4
Painted steel, signed, 87
65 x 60 x 35cm
R 50 000 – R 70 000
Eduardo Villa’s totemic and playful figures are endlessly fascinating for the ways in which they seem to beg for a
likeness to something. Many of Villa sculptures around the country in private and public collections are debated over
again and again: some arguing for their abstraction and others for their likeness to animals, humans, machines. And
yet it is the tension between figure and non-figure that gives these works their potency. In Encounter with Colour no. 4,
we wonder if the bold red colour inside the tubular ‘beak’ of the figure is in fact the depths of a large and hungry mouth
belonging to some or other therianthropic bird man, or if perhaps the encounter, as it were, is simply a play of planes
and shapes resulting in a cavernous glow of red. This tension also perhaps contributes to the ways in which Villa’s
works seem timeless and undeniably modern, as if they reference the gods of the past through the symbols of the
future. As artist and collector Karel Nel argues: “The combination of the archaic, archetypal characteristics of African
art with the liberation of modernity and the technology of the new industrial world has played itself out throughout Villa’s
creative career” (2005: 144).
Reference: 1. Nel, K. 2005. Edoardo Villa: Creating an African Presence. In Nel, K., Burroughs, E. and Von Maltitz, A. (eds.). Villa at 90.
Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishing. pp. 121-147.
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Hodgins, Robert Griffiths (SA 1920 - 2010)
Your Friendly Garage Hand
Oil on canvas, signed, 1999/00
120 x 90cm
R 450 000 – R 550 000
Your Friendly Garage Hand points, in some sense, to the long-standing friendship and collaboration between Robert
Hodgins and Jan Neethling. In his essay ‘Young Men in Garage Trousers’, curator and writer Wilhelm van Rensburg
details the meeting of the two artists when Hodgins lectured Neethling in the late 1950s. The story goes that Hodgins
enquired of his new student “what a young man at College was doing wearing garage trousers – denim jeans –
when the dress code was strictly suit-and-tie?” (2014: np). The reference in this painting to the “garage hand”, who
is clearly wearing dirty blue jeans, seems to suggest a link to this initial encounter between the two almost half a
century prior. Van Rensburg goes on to argue that the phrase “young men in garage trousers” marked Hodgins’ and
Neethling’s “irreverent attitude towards convention that became the hallmark of both artists throughout their artistic
careers” (2014: np).
The figure in the painting can be read as a kind of human manifestation of this idea, a kind of a mascot for the rulebenders, the outsiders, the villain of the story, but a hero of the working class. In this way, the painting acts almost
like a movie poster, advertising a macho narrative of strength against adversity. The figure holds the wrench in his left
hand almost like a dumbbell, flexing the muscles beneath his plain white t-shirt. He is James Dean in Rebel Without
a Cause, John Travolta in Grease. This reference is further emphasised by the use of collaged text – an advert for
Shell Garage, which has been carefully and playfully cropped into the scene. The bold title becomes “hell rage” and
the words ‘repairs’ and ‘services’ are chopped into pairs and vices, which are “done here” “day & night”. The inclusion
of this text shifts the way we read the image, not simply because its hard clean lines set off the painterly surface of
the rest of the painting, but also for the way it presses us to look beneath the surface of the story, to read between
the lines.
In this way the painting seems to also point toward a 2001 collaboration between the two artists in which they
revisited a set of printmaking experiments using a limited number of “iconic” images. In the 1980s the pair had
created recreated a silkscreen portrait of 1930s American gangster Pretty Boy Floyd. Van Rensburg argues that the
two seemed to mimic the 1960s prints by Andy Warhol Thirteen Most Wanted Men in which the valorisation of the
underdog appeared to have reached its climax in the USA (2014). In 2001 they followed a similar process, meeting
over Easter weekend and experimenting with silkscreening, but this time used portraits of each other. Hodgins
apparently joked that in this later collaboration there were two criminals with which to contend.
Your Friendly Garage Hand seems to be posed as more of a question than a statement – is this character more vice
than virtue? Furthermore is this perhaps an imagined portrait of the pair’s friendship and collaboration – two young
men in garage trousers?
Reference: 1. van Rensburg, W. 2014. Young Men in Garage Trousers. In Erdmann, H. Jan Neethling. Cape Town: Erdmann
Contemporary
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Mnisi, Samson (SA 1971)
Abstract Composition
Oil on canvas, signed, 2008
229 x 154cm
R 25 000 – R 35 000
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P234
Battiss, Walter Whall (SA 1906 - 1982)
Farmscape with horses
Watercolour, signed
24 x 34cm
R 6 000 – R 9 000
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P235
Roberts, Kevin
(SA 1965 - 2009)
Lady with Feather
and Branch
Oil on panel,
signed, 98
69 x 69cm
R 40 000 – R 50 000
Kevin Roberts is well known for his quiet, but potent paintings that seem to draw on a universal language of iconography.
Here a woman is mirrored in two halves of the picture plane, perhaps signalling the passing of time. In the first image,
she holds a feather in one hand and a piece of blue flowing cloth in the other. The symbolism of these two prompts
seem to suggest the hope of water – the bird a messenger of rain and the cloth a flowing river. She is, however,
shrouded in darkness and all we see in the background are the dry branches of a tree, which seem a poor substitute for
the halo that such a staid and pious Madonna surely deserves. In the next scene she is imaged in a bleak landscape,
but now holds a small green branch, perhaps a promise of new beginnings. As Ingrid Stevens proposes, this woman
is not a reference to someone in particular, but rather “an archetype” … “ a Madonna or mother, sister or daughter, or
a bearer of new life, or metaphor for aspect of the human condition, such as human spirituality, the unconscious, the
meditative and the instinctive.”
Reference: 1. Stevens, I. No date. Kevin Roberts. [Online]. Available: http://www.art.co.za/kevinroberts/.
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P236
Dietrich, Keith Hamilton (SA 1950 - )
What Mrs Price could not purchase at Seg
Watercolour
R 5 000 – R 8 000
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P237
Morris, Tim (SA 1941 - 1990)
Alphabet glazed stoneware jar
signed
height 68cm
R 3 000 – R 5 000
P238
Galligani,
Luigi (SA 1959 - )
Reclining Nude
Cement, signed
R 2 000 – R 3 000
P239
Sebidi, Helen
(SA 1943- )
Untitled:
Ceremonial Dance
Lithograph, signed, 99
37 x 56cm
R 2 000 – R 3 000
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P230 William Kentridge,
Megaphone, from the Rebus Series
Credit
*S V – Stacey Vorster is a lecturer in the Wits History of Art department as well as the
curator of the Constitutional Court Art Collection.
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P235 Kevin Roberts, Lady with Feather and Branch
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