Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection, Day Sale
Timed Online Auction, 10 - 22 November 2022
Paintings
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 artworks 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 the title on the reverse
Notes
"I recall one such painting in particular called Vygies, a bright, shadowless interpretation of white Namaqualand flowers at high noon, which today is owned by her granddaughter Shirley Tucle in far-away, Birmingham. A similar, top-view painting of rocks, mercilessly naked in full glare of the sun, was titled Noon. Both paintings gave lie to the contention then held that our local painters had not yet dared interpret our South African midday light and sun."1
1. Dieter Bertram (1994) Cecil Higgs: Close Up, Rivonia: William Waterman Publications (Pty) Ltd, page 85-86.
Provenance
Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg, October 1968.
Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection.
Literature
Victor Holloway (1974) Cecil Higgs (South African Art Library), Cape Town and Johannesburg: C. Struik Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 42.
Dieter Bertram (1994) Cecil Higgs: Close Up, Rivonia: William Waterman Publications (Pty) Ltd, page 85-86.
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