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; Extensive Landscape Northern Transvaal
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 10 583 000
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Bethal Farm near Kroonstad
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 89 120
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; The Slave Bell
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 256 220
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Helshoogte
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 267 360
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Groep Huise Tulbagh (Nilant 10)
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 10 539
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Wilgerboom en Stroom (N.86)
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 13 925
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; An Extensive Mountainous Landscape
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 17 824
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; A Mountainous Landscape
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 200 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Barberton en Nelshoogte, Kaapschehoop
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 5 792 800
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Baobab Tree
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 7 575 200
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; An Extensive Landscape with Acacia Tortilis
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 1 448 200
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Koringlande, Agter Paarl
11 Oct 2010
Sold for ZAR 4 678 800
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.