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 54 624
Lot 224
  • Cecil Higgs; Tommy
  • Cecil Higgs; Tommy
  • Cecil Higgs; Tommy


Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 54 624

About this Item

South African 1898-1986
Tommy

signed and dated 1929; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on the reverse

oil on canvas
74,5 by 49,5cm excluding frame; 88 by 61,5 by 3cm including frame

Provenance

Mr James van Heyningen Coetzer, who inherited the painting from the artist.

Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 30 November 1993, lot 507.

Die Kunskamer, Cape Town, 1994.

The Professor Leon Strydom Collection.

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, The Professor Leon Strydom Collection and Sixty Years of Collecting Linn Ware, The David Hall Collection, 10 August 2021, lot 281.

Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.

Literature

Victor Holloway (1974) Cecil Higgs, exhibition catalogue, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, illustrated in black and white as Fig 21 on page 42.

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