Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 16 - 23 August 2021

Guest Curator: Amohelang Mohajane
About the Session

NWU Gallery curator and collections manager Amohelang Mohajane is the guest curator for our August online-only auction. Her selection is carefully curated in celebration of Women’s Month. Mohajane has participated as a curator in over 30 exhibitions in the past 10 years, contributing to powerful visual and academic narratives relating to feminism, postcolonialism, and South African and African Art. 


Sold for

ZAR 128 975
Lot 21
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers
  • Maud Sumner; Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers


Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 128 975

About this Item

South African 1902-1985
Still Life with Fruit and Jug of Flowers

signed; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on a label adhered to the reverse

oil on board
59,5 by 44,5cm excluding frame; 83 by 68 by 6cm including frame

Notes

Acquired from the artist by Professor Geoffrey Pearse, first head of the Department of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, who was a friend of the artist's.

Thence by bequest within the family.

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