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; Bloekom Bome
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 44 555
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Church Street, Tulbagh
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 1 715 625
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Acacia Trees in an Extensive Landscape
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 866 438
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Boomstudies, Waterberg
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 112 413
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Camel Thorn and Voortrekker House
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 46 900
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Okahandja, Suidwes-Afrika
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 93 800
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Mountain Landscape with Clouds
15 Jan 2024
Sold for ZAR 519 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Farmhouse with Trees
15 Jan 2024
Sold for ZAR 257 950
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Skakuza
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 42 210
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Boomstamme (Nilant 101)
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 52 763
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Doringboom
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 49 245
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Study for Plaaswerf (Farm Landscape)
27 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 17 588
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

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Results in green indicate post sales.