South African and International Art
Live Auction, 20 May 2013
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 40 925
About this Item
South African 1871-1939
Still Life with Roses
signed
oil on canvas
45 by 35cm excluding frame
Notes
In a candid 1935 interview with the press at the opening of his Johannesburg exhibition, Gwelo stated: "I paint roses, I was going to say as well as any man alive-but probably better. Fantin-Latour is the only rival I have ever had as a rose painter."1
1 Newton Thompson, Joyce. Gwelo Goodman: South African Painter. Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951, page 107
Provenance
Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg
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