Important South African and International Art
Live Auction, 12 November 2018
Unsung History
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
About this Item
South African 1926-2020
Grotto
signed and dated '78
oil on canvas
90 by 102,5cm excluding frame
Notes
Alice Elahi studied at the University of Cape Town, the Continental School of Art, under Maurice van Essche, and later the Camberwell College of Arts, London, under Victor Pasmore. She was a prize-winner in the 1968 New Signatures competition and became one of South Africa’s leading landscape artists, focusing on Cape coast seascapes and Namibian desert landscapes, in particular. Her work is included in public and private collections in South Africa and overseas.Literature
Nushin Elahi (2015). Alice Elahi: Landscape through an Artist's Eyes – A Retrospective, catalogue for the exhibition at Pretoria Art Museum, 7 February – 26 April 2015, illustrated in colour on page 30.