Important South African and International Art
Live Auction, 5 June 2017
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 181 888
About this Item
British/South African 1915-1969
Thornveld
oil and wax on board
120 by 180,5cm excluding frame
Notes
Trained at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts, and then at the Royal College of Art in London, Jack Heath settled in South Africa in 1946 having already developed a recognisable, vanguard style amongst such famed British Modernists as Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Edward Bawden and Sir William Nicholson. The present lot is evidence of the artist's wonderful sense of clean, dramatic design and bold, fearless colour. From a distance Thornveld is instantly engaging and beautifully decorative; up close the texture and intricate, patterned brushstroke, achieved through the artist's unique, wax-based medium, is utterly mesmerizing.
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