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
 

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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Landscape with Trees
2 Dec 2024
Starting at ZAR 80 000
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; By Tabaizimbi (sic), Rustenberg
2 Dec 2024
Starting at ZAR 80 000
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Portrait of a Voortrekker (Nilant 136)
2 Dec 2024
Sold for ZAR 35 175
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Bushveld Landscape
12 Nov 2024
ZAR 500 000 - 700 000
 
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Landscape with Fever Trees
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 1 544 063
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Farm House with Tree
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 404 338
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Farmstead
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 924 200
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Piglenburg Huisie Met Bome
12 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 404 338
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Malalapalm by Leydsdorp O.T.
11 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 117 250
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Voorstudie Waterval Boven
11 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 82 075
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Drakensberg by Leydsdorp
11 Nov 2024
Sold for ZAR 70 350
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef; Boerehuis, Tulbagh, K.P.
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 44 555
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT