Important South African Art

Live Auction, 7 November 2011

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 47 345
Lot 234
  • Cathcart William Methven; A Hopeless Dawn
  • Cathcart William Methven; A Hopeless Dawn


Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 47 345

About this Item

South African 1849-1925
A Hopeless Dawn

signed and dated 1908

oil on canvas
75 by 127cm excluding frame

Literature

Nigel Hughes, Views in Colonial Natal, Craighall, 2005, page 56 and 57, illustrated in colour.

"On occasion Methven painted a scene after the event and this commemorates a shipwreck in the breakers, possibly that of the Cape wooden dandy Harry Mundahl which came ashore at daybreak on 31 January 1901, just north of Port Shepstone. Carrying sugar at the time of her wreck - in which no lives were lost - the Harry Mundahl of 122 tons was owned by the Port Shepstone Shipping Company."

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