Strauss & Co’s upcoming online-only auction offers buyers a selection of 19th Century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art.
One of the auction’s highlights is a specially curated session by senior art specialist Ian Hunter, who hails from the Eastern Cape and has been exposed to the province’s cultural exports from his time as a curator at the Ann Bryant National Gallery and lecturer in the area.
“Highlights include artworks by the Grahamstown Group, an art movement led by Brian Bradshaw, who was a professor of Fine Art at Rhodes University during the 1960s. He was an interesting and at times, controversial figure in South African art history,” he adds. Port Elizabeth also produced several stellar artists – one of the most notable is Black modernist, George Pemba. “A key lot in this session is, an intimate watercolour of street life in Pemba’s home town,” Hunter says. Pemba drew inspiration from European realists Honoré-Victorin Daumier and Gustav Courbet and their unflinching depictions of class distinctions and social issues. But unlike the French-European realists’ Pemba recorded his own reality with dignity and pathos.
The sale also includes regular art auction stalwarts and perennials, with prints from William Kentridge, Walter Battiss, Georgina Gratrix, Peter Clarke, and JH Pierneef. Pierneef, always a favourite, has two works in this sale includinga charming linocut of a chicken coup in front of a gabled Cape Dutch farmhouse.
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