Important South African and International Art
Live Auction, 13 November 2017
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 11 125
About this Item
British 1910-1973
Portrait of Hugh Tracey (Musicologist)
signed, dated Sept. 1938 and inscribed with the title
pencil on paper
56 by 38cm excluding frame
Notes
Merlyn Evans, the fine, British abstract painter, fresh from exhibiting at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936, took up a teaching post at the Durban School of Art in 1938. His sitter, Hugh Tracey, a pioneering ethnomusicologist, recorded and archived authentic, traditional African music from 1921 to 1977. In 1954 he established the International Library of African Music.
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