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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About this Item
each signed; the left panel: inscribed with the artist's name, title and medium on a Dennis Hotz Fine Art label adhered to the reverse; the right panel: dated 1975 and inscribed with the title on the reverse
Notes
“The work draws its inspiration from the Eden myth, and it is a wonderfully succinct, condensed, symbolic expression of the theme. The massive, matriarchal angel’s wing combines sheer delicate beauty with a powerful, threatening awesomeness. There is high tension of contrast between the menacing aspect and the gracefulness. The display of the open wing is in inverted contrast with the sadness of the closed breast.” —Margaret Hitge1
1. Margaret Hitge (n.d.) ‘Judith Mason’, in Heine Toerien and Georges Duby (ed), Our Art 3, Pretoria: The Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, publishers of Lantern, page 13 to 14.
Provenance
Dennis Hotz Fine Art, Johannesburg, 1998.
Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.
Literature
Heine Toerien and Georges Duby (ed) (no date), Our Art 3, Pretoria: The Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, publishers of Lantern, illustrated in colour on page 10, illustration 1.
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