South African and International Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Online-Only Auction, 1 - 8 April 2019
Works on Paper
Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 500 - 2 000
About this Item
Norman Lighton
1904-1981
Sleeping Lion; Nyala; Lesser Kudu; Mawcaws (sic); Yellow-crested Cockatoo
each signed and dated 1921
watercolour on paper laid down on card
Sleeping Lion: 10 by 20,5cm excluding frame; 20 by 31 by 1cm including frame; Others: 22 by 13,5cm excluding frame; 33,5 by 24,5 by 1cm including frame
Notes
Norman Lighton qualified and worked as an architect, but in 1936, while employed by the South African Department of Public Works, he was seconded to the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria to illustrate The Birds of South Africa, written by Dr Austin Roberts (1940). Some of Lighton’s original artworks can be found in the collection of the Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg.
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