Provenance

Mrs Taaljaard, Stellenbosch.

Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 30 November 1993, lot 493, with the title Shepherd with His Sheep at a Lakeside.

Literature

Johan van Rooyen (1974) Maggie Laubser, Cape Town: C Struik Publishers, page 12, with the title Shepherd with his Flock.

Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor Publishers, illustrated in black and white on page 198, cat. no 612, with the title Figure in a Landscape: Shepherd, Sheep and Seascape with Boats in Background.

Notes

The present lot is a preparatory sketch for Shepherd and Sheep sold by Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 13 April 2021, lot 583.