Modern and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 7 November 2023
Evening
Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000
About this Item
South African 1862-1945
The Mealiepap Eater
signed and inscribed 'SA Joh-burg', bears the foundry mark
bronze with a brown patina, on a granite base; cast by the Massa foundry, Rome
height: 14,5cm excluding base, 16,5cm including base; width: 28cm; depth 32cm
Notes
A casting of The Mieliepap Eater was a treasured possession of Pieter Wenning and his family. Wenning, a Hollander and Pretorian like Anton van Wouw, ordered a casting of the small-scale bronze for his ill wife, Johanna, who had returned to Holland in 1913 for medical treatment. The sculpture was delivered to her in The Hague in March 1914 – sent directly from the foundry in Rome – and was safely stowed in her luggage when she returned to Pretoria.
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