Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023

Evening Sale
  • Adolph Jentsch; Extensive Landscape, Namibia
  • Adolph Jentsch; Extensive Landscape, Namibia
  • Adolph Jentsch; Extensive Landscape, Namibia


Lot Estimate
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000

About this Item

German/Namibian 1888-1977
Extensive Landscape, Namibia

signed with the artist's initials and dated 1949; signed on the stretcher

oil on canvas
45 by 70cm excluding frame; 52,5 by 77 by 7cm including frame

Notes

In Jentsch's cosmic conception of Nature he conveys sublimity - the infinite - by means of subtle suggestion. He is a master of empty spaces which give a special spiritual quality to his work.1

1. Olga Levinson (1973) Adolph Jentsch, Cape Town: Human and Rousseau, page 68.

Provenance

Private Collection, Cape Town.

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