Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection, Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 22 November 2022
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About the SessionMatthys 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.
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About this Item
signed; inscribed with the artist's name and inscribed 'Die Moeder' in another hand on the reverse
Notes
Over the years Preller titled works In the Beginning. These first works of the Old Testament indicate that he would do later versions of the theme, which indeed he did. In her preface to the catalogue of Preller’s 1972 Exhibition at The Pretoria Art Gallery Esmé Berman writes, “In the beginning … Alexis Preller was a dreamy boy who grew up in Pretoria, played amid the grasses of the veld and watched the faces and the forms around him. Then, from his experience, his observations, and his inner psyche, he extracted forms and shapes and colours and composed a vision that is conceptually original, artistically unique among the works of cultural expression that his country has produced.”1
1. Matthys Strydom, 2021, Stories Teen my My Muur, Eversdal: Matthys Strydom, page 103.
Provenance
Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, Monday 15 October 1990, lot 132.
Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.
Literature
Matthys Strydom (2021) Nog Stories Teen My Muur, George: LW Hiemstra Trust, illustrated in colour on page 102.
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