Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection, Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 22 November 2022
Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection Live Auction
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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Notes
Hugo Naudé’s paintings of Namaqualand are synonymous with his name. In the current lot, Wild Flowers, Namaqualand, the artist describes an arid landscape vitalised paint with Spring flowers with lively impressionistic brushstrokes and academic perspective. The blooms extend in a vivid corridor of impasto in shades of yellow, orange and green which pass through this composition.
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, Johannesburg, 17 March 1976, lot 172.
Prof Ernst van Heerden, Pretoria.
Acquired 1 June 1976 by Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.
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