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Aleksanders Klopcanovs

Uzbekistani/South African 1912-1997 


Klopcanovs was born in 1912 in Tashkent, the capital city of present-day Uzbekistan. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga, Latvia, and the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Klopcanovs joined the Linnware Ceramic Studio in South Africa in 1948. Later that year he and his wife Elma Vestman left Linnware and set up the Kalahari Studio in Bramley, Johannesburg. In July 1950, the couple relocated the studio to Cape Town. Despite his involvement with the ceramic studio, Klopcanovs’s primary interest was oil painting and he participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Africa between 1961 and 1973. During this period, he sold paintings in Sweden and the United States. Two of Klopcanovs's paintings are in the Museum of Modem Art (MOMA), USA. His oil paintings of the 1950s and 1960s are primarily figurative, although landscape was also an interest.


27 lots offered      77.78% sold      ZAR 118 413
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Landscape with Autumn Trees and Willows
29 Mar 2021
Sold for ZAR 6 449
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Desert Landscape
14 Apr 2020
Sold for ZAR 11 139
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Male and Female Reclining Nudes, two
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 2 580
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Portrait of an African Woman
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 173
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Reclining Female Nude
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 290
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Standing Male Nude
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 056
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Crouching Male Nude
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 759
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Male Nude and Female Nude, two
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 642
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Standing Nude, View from Right Side
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 938
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Female Nude, View from Left Side
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 938
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Portraits of Men, four
5 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 1 876
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Aleksanders Klopcanovs; Desert Landscape
4 Mar 2019
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000