Important South African and International Art
Live Auction, 5 June 2017
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 36 378
About this Item
South African 1924-2019
Study for Target Composition
signed and dated 73
gouache on paper
26 by 34cm excluding frame
Notes
This colourful gouache on paper study, related to the much larger 1973 Target Composition tapestry by Cecily Sash (right), encapsulates many of the elements of her visual language (fig.1). Birds of various kinds emerged in her work between 1955 and 1963 and became a primary subject in her expressionistic compositions. In Target Composition birds appear out of abstracted figurative motifs surrounded by implied trees, an animal skull and thorns. The most insistent features of the artist's vocabulary, stark colours, black with white and pale tints, and the essentially linear rhythms of her work are all evident in this work.
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