Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Carl Schmidt, and thence by descent.

Exhibited

Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg, Alexis Preller, 20 November to 4 December 1962, cat. no. 2.

South African Association of Arts, Polley's Arcade, Pretoria, Alexis Preller 1962-1963, 15 to 31 October 1963, cat. no. 6.

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Alexis Preller Retrospective, 24 October to 26 November, 1972, cat. no. 101.

Literature

Johan Reinder Deichmann (1986) Die Werk van Alexis Preller 1934-1948 en 'n Catalogue Raisonné, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, cat. no. 639.

Esmé Berman and Karel Nel (2009) Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows, Saxonwold: Shelf Publishers, pages 227, 368, 371 and a similar example illustrated in colour on page 229 with the title Apple II.