Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 5 - 6 April 2022
Art: Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 350 000 - 450 000
About this Item
South African 1909-2005
House with Verandah, Old Cape Town
signed and dated 1967; signed and inscribed with the title in English and Afrikaans (Huis met Veranda, ou Kaapstad) on the reverse
oil on canvas
49,5 by 63cm excluding frame; 75,5 by 88 by 6,5cm including frame
Notes
Under his brush, with successive overlays of scumbling, Gregoire was able to imbue these Georgian facades of the Bo-Kaap with a credible textured patina. Painted in 1967 and based on countless pencil and pastel drawings executed in situ, enabled him to concretise these observations of this community onto the surface of a canvas.
Literature
Martin Bekker (1990) Gregoire Boonzaier, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, page 63 where a similar work is illustrated.