South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 4 February 2013
Paintings Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 788
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Robben Island series
signed and dated Dec. 87; inscribed with the artist's name and address on the reverse
pencil and watercolour
57 by 83cm excluding frame
Notes
cf. Frieda Harmsen, Cecil Skotnes, South African National Gallery, 1996, page 239, where a comparable work from the Collection of the South African National Gallery is illustrated.
Provenance
Acquired from the Detainees' Parents Support Committee exhibition, Detention Without Trial: 100 Artists Protest, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, 31 January to 5 March 1988