Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 19 March 2024

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 187 600
Lot 83
  • David Goldblatt; Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004
  • David Goldblatt; Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004
  • David Goldblatt; Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 187 600

About this Item

South African 1930-2018
Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004

signed, dated 25/1/2004 and numbered 2/6 in pencil in the margin

archival pigment ink on cotton rag paper
image size: 81,5 by 101,5cm; 98,5 by 118,5 by 5cm including frame

Exhibited

Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, Intersections, 7 February to 12 March 2005, another example from the edition exhibited.

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, Goodman Gallery Booth, 14 February to 16 February 2020, another example from the edition exhibited.

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