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Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024

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Lot 310
  • Wolf Kibel; Interior with Lilies
  • Wolf Kibel; Interior with Lilies
  • Wolf Kibel; Interior with Lilies


Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 500 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 350 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1903-1938
Interior with Lilies

inscribed 'painted c 1933' on the reverse

oil on board
40,5 by 43cm excluding frame; 61 by 64 by 7cm including frame

Exhibited

South African Association of Arts, Pretoria, Historical Exhibition of South African Art at the Pretoria Centenary, 13 to 30 September 1955.

Literature

Esmé Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: AA Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 233.

Notes

In 1933, Wolf Kibel was living in Cape Town and found friendship with fellow artist Hugo Naude who gave him use of a large studio which housed a printing press. This was the year that Kibel’s wife and son, Freda and Joseph, joined him in Cape Town. Freda, not having seen Kibel’s work in years, on seeing his art expressed, ‘I was astonished at how different it was from that which I had grown accustomed in the past. He was now doing much work from life, portraits of friends, landscapes, nude studies, still lifes, and using a wide variety of media, pastel, oil, watercolour, tempera, black and white chalk drawing, pen drawing, etching, and different conceptions he wished to externalise … his own personal vision had asserted itself.’1

1. Freda Kibel and Neville Dubow (1968) Wolf Kibel: A Brief Sketch of His Life and Work, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, page 21.

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