Notes

The verso of this work is an unsigned painting thought to be by JH Pierneef. Hendriks and Pierneef met in Holland in 1926; Willem van Konijnenburg was a mutual friend. Hendriks came to South Africa on Pierneef's advice, and later became the director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

Provenance

Stephan Welz & Co., 3 March 1975, lot 109

Stephan Welz & Co., 30 November 1982

The Collection of the Late AJ Theron.