The Professor Leon Strydom Collection and Sixty Years of Collecting Linn Ware, The David Hall Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 10 August 2021

Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, The Professor Leon Strydom Collection
  • Dorothy Kay; Salt
  • Dorothy Kay; Salt
  • Dorothy Kay; Salt
  • Dorothy Kay; Salt
  • Dorothy Kay; Salt


Lot Estimate
ZAR 100 000 - 150 000

About this Item

Irish/South African 1886-1964
Salt

signed; inscribed 'Philip's Collection' on the reverse.

oil on canvas
73 by 85,5cm excluding frame; 86 by 98,5 by 4cm including frame

Provenance

Acquired from the artist, thence by descent.

Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 11 November 2013, lot 206.

The Professor Leon Strydom Collection.

Exhibited

The National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town.

Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts, Port Elizabeth, 23rd Exhibition, 18-28 September 1940, catalogue number 16.

Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts, Arts Hall, Port Elizabeth, Works by Dorothy Kay 1902-1955, June 1955, catalogue number 3.

Literature

Marjorie Reynolds (1989) Everything you do is a Portrait of Yourself, Dorothy Kay: A Biography, Johannesburg: Privately Published, mentioned on page 101, exhibitions mentioned on pages 464 and 475.

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