The August online auction comprising 250 lots in three sessions with a dedicated South African ceramics focus, is now open for bidding.
Speaking to some of the highlights of this first session, Strauss & Co’s Head of Department and Senior Art Specialist Dr Alastair Meredith cites an early small-scale work by“Works from this period are incredibly rare, these are works from before he joins the war effort and goes up to the North Africa campaign in 1940,” explains Meredith.from 1991.
Also featured in August’s Art Club, which takes place in Johannesburg this month, is the opening of a small exhibition of selected works from the collection of the University of Pretoria . The exhibition will run until the 24 August and can be viewed daily from 9am to 5 pm.and features a wide range of works. depicting a steep, green carved-out bank, a glistening lavender sea, and a collection of boats and masts bobbing in the wind.
“Elahi is a little-known, undervalued, and underappreciated painter and I have to say this is one of her masterpieces,” says Meredith. “This is a painting that I would absolutely love to own myself.”. These include a few of her oil paintings, and some fantastic watercolours in very good condition, of which, with its curved bridge before a cluster of snow-topped homes and thin, wintry trees, is an excellent example.
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