Artists

From Albert Adams to Portia Zvavahera, Strauss & Co maintains a detailed database of every artist sold at auction since 2009. Whether it is painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, ceramics or new media, this searchable database lists by artist every lot offered and provides aggregated data useful to collectors. Famous South African artists like William Kentridge, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern are introduced with helpful biographies along with the best contemporary artists.



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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

South African 1886-1957 


Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, born on the Highveld in 1886, is perhaps South Africa’s most iconic landscape painter. Having developed an unmistakable and economical aesthetic during the first half of the twentieth century, his pictures, whether described as startlingly beautiful, willingly experimental, nostalgic, or gently monumental, are familiar to generations of South Africans. Enormously prolific, the artist was equally comfortable working in oils, gouache, watercolour and casein, while the prints he produced, both linocuts and etchings, remain as influential as they are collectable.

It goes without saying that Pierneef has attracted attention from eminent art historians and critics; thanks to the emotive charge of his pictures, and the historical context in which they were produced, his career has been widely discussed in socio-political terms too. A recent, major retrospective at the Standard Bank Gallery – curated by Strauss & Co’s Wilhelm van Rensburg – has shed a new light on the artist’s imagination, range and decorative appeal, and sealed his position as one of the country’s masters.


1,019 lots offered      87.34% sold      ZAR 427 608 478
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Doringboom in Veld (Nilant 96)
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 52 763
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Wilgerboom, Fonteine, Pretoria (Nilant 84)
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 49 245
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Plaashuis, Kaap (Nilant 23)
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 32 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Die Tweelinge, Stellenbosch (Nilant 20)
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 64 488
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Nelspruit
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 82 075
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Waterval Onder (Nilant 68)
13 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 32 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; House Vermeulen on Market St, Pretoria (Nilant 31)
13 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 48 300
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Shaitani
20 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 93 800
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Mountains in an Extensive Landscape
19 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 3 000 000
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; The Brandberg Mountains
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 567 500
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Mountain Landscape
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 105 525
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Grassy Landscape with a Watering Hole
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 293 125
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.