The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
Live Virtual Auction, 20 September 2022
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
About the SessionStrauss & Co is pleased to present this extraordinary collection as the featured session this September Live Virtual Auction. An established insolvency practitioner with a passion for the arts, Oliver Powell's principal focus has been collecting South African painting, sculpture and works on paper made since 1950. Colour, graphic ingenuity and emotional weight are all attributes in an artwork that Powell is drawn to. Powell also emphasises the importance of his many encounters with artists. “There is so much value in meeting an artist,” says Powell. “Aspects and details of their life are reflected in what and how they paint.”
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About this Item
signed; signed and inscribed with the title on the reverse
Notes
"His work possesses something of Chagall's enchanting visions, the guileless piety of Rouault, the resonant colour of the Expressionists and the intuitive wisdom of the peasant." — Graham Watson1
1Elsa ver Looren van Themaat (1976) Pranas Domsaitis, Cape Town and Johannesburg: C. Struik Publishers, page 20.
Provenance
Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby's, Cape Town, 7 February 2006, lot 472.
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.
Literature
Elsa ver Looren van Themaat (1976) Pranas Domsaitis, Cape Town and Johannesburg: C Struik Publishers, a similar example is illustrated in black and white on page 43.
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