Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 31 May - 7 June 2021
Works on Paper
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 29 313
About this Item
South African 1900-1975
MER (Tant Miem)
signed, dated 60 and inscribed 'MER, 7 Oktober 1960, VEELS GELUK'
charcoal on paper
58 by 44,5cm excluding frame; 82,5 by 67 by 2cm including frame
Notes
MER is the pseudonym of the celebrated social worker and Afrikaans writer Maria Elizabeth Rothmann (1875-1975). Part of a series commissioned by the 'Akademise Kuns en Wetenskap' of the Hertzog Prize Winners.
Provenance
Strauss & Co, Cape Town, October 2013, lot 714.
Literature
Elza Miles (1997) The World of Jean Welz, Johannesburg: Fernwood Press, illustrated on page 101.