Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection, Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 22 November 2022

Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection Live Auction
About the Session

Matthys Strydom was a true connoisseur of South African art. As director of the well-known Strydom Gallery in George for more than 30 years, he was responsible for the selection of a wide variety of prime art works from all over the country for the annual exhibitions. The Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection offered by Strauss & Co gives collectors and art lovers the chance to become part of this great selection from the art history of our country.


Sold for

ZAR 45 520
Lot 215
  • Carl Büchner; Ecce Homo
  • Carl Büchner; Ecce Homo
  • Carl Büchner; Ecce Homo


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 45 520

About this Item

South African 1921-2003
Ecce Homo

signed; inscribed with the artist's name, title and medium on the reverse

oil on board
68 by 35cm excluding frame; 94 by 60,5 by 4cm including frame

Provenance

Professor Ernst van Heerden, 1996.

Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.

Exhibited

Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria, 1967.

Johannesburg Art Gallery, A Century of South African Art, July 1969.

Strydom Gallery, George, Carl Büchner Retrospective Exhibition, 19 June to 20 July 1996, cat. no 70. 

Literature

Esmé Berman (1969) Art and Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: A A Balkema, illustrated on page 50.

South African Digest, August 1969, illustrated on page 9.

Strydom Gallery (1996) Carl Büchner, exhibition catalogue, George: Strydom Gallery, unpaginated, cat. no 70.

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