Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on The Fairest Cape

Online-Only Auction, 23 - 28 November 2022

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The Fairest Cape
About the Session

The Cape Peninsula has been given many names throughout history. In 1488 Vasco da Gama named it the Cape of Storms and Prince Henry the Navigator gave it the name Cape of Good Hope. But it was the English Admiral, Sir Francis Drake, who gave this south-western most point of Africa the most appropriate name when he declared in 1579, “This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth”.   

These words still ring true today. The November auction has a large body of work devoted to this exceptional part of the world.  


Sold for

ZAR 6 449
Lot 68
  • Simon Calburn; White-bellied Sunbird
  • Simon Calburn; White-bellied Sunbird
  • Simon Calburn; White-bellied Sunbird
  • Simon Calburn; White-bellied Sunbird
  • Simon Calburn; White-bellied Sunbird


Lot Estimate
ZAR 2 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 6 449

About this Item

Simon Calburn
South African 1938-1992
White-bellied Sunbird

signed and dated 1974

gouache on paper
43 by 31cm excluding frame; 65 by 53 by 1cm including frame

Provenance

Bobby Lawrence and Simon Calburn Exhibition, donated to International Wilderness Leadership School.