Important British, Continental and South African Paintings
Live Auction, 24 May 2010
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
About this Item
South African 1923-1980
Herd Boy II
signed and dated 1958
oil on board
59 by 47cm excluding frame
Notes
(JM Cat No. 598)
There were three versions of Herd Boy. Meintjes destroyed Herd Boy I in 1960 and Herd Boy III was publised in Alexander's Art in SA, Panorama, Lantern and Die Vaderland.
Literature
cf. F.L. Alexander, Art in South Africa Since 1900, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1962, illustrated in black and white on page 99, Herd Boy, 1958
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