Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 September 2022

Evening Sale
  • Alexis Preller; Apple I
  • Alexis Preller; Apple I
  • Alexis Preller; Apple I


Lot Estimate
ZAR 700 000 - 1 000 000

About this Item

South African 1911-1975
Apple I

signed and dated 62

oil on canvas
51 by 62cm excluding frame; 70 by 79,5 by 3,5cm including frame

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Carl Schmidt, and thence by descent.

Exhibited

Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg, Alexis Preller, 20 November to 4 December 1962, catalogue number 2.

South African Association of Arts, Polley's Arcade, Pretoria, Alexis Preller 1962-1963, 15 to 31 October 1963, catalogue number 6.

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Alexis Preller Retrospective, October 24 to November 26, 1972, catalogue number 101.

Literature

Johan Reinder Deichmann (1986) Die Werk van Alexis Preller 1934-1948 en 'n Catalogue Raisonné, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, catalogue number 639.

Esmé Berman and Karel Nel (2009) Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows, Saxonwold: Shelf Publishers, pages 227, 368, 371 and a similar example illustrated in colour on page 229 with the title Apple II.

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