Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021
Contemporary Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
About this Item
South African 1973-
Burnt by the Sun
signed, dated 2003 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
coloured pencil on paper
sheet size: 47,5 by 36,5cm; 61 by 50 by 3,5cm including frame
Notes
Burnt by the Sun, the collective title for a cycle of important sculptures, drawings and lithographs, references Claudette
Schreuders’ maternal grandparents who immigrated to South Africa from the Netherlands in 1942. The present lot, a fine and delicate colour pencil drawing, a preparatory sketch for a lifesize sculpture with the same title, was exhibited at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2002 together with 11 other coloured pencil drawings.
Provenance
Gallery Art on Paper.
Private Collection, Johannesburg.