Irma Stern: Time|Line
Live Virtual Auction, 8 June 2022
Irma Stern: Time|Line
About the SessionIrma Stern: Time | Line is a single-artist sale of 140 lots devoted to this illustrious artist. The lots on offer range from oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings, ceramics and books and are presented chronologically, featuring works made in every decade from 1920 until the artist’s death in 1966.
The auction includes 124 artworks from the Irma Stern Trust Collection. Proceeds from the sale of these works will benefit the Irma Stern Trust Collection, housed in the much-loved Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town. Income derived from the sale will strengthen the Irma Stern Trust Collection for the future by preserving the core collection and making it accessible by developing the existing Irma Stern Trust website into an important research resource.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 113 800
About this Item
South African 1894-1966
Head with Pot
signed and dated 1933; inscribed with the accession number in pencil on the reverse
gouache on sketchbook paper
41 by 29cm excluding frame
Provenance
The Irma Stern Trust Collection, accession number 777.
Literature
Andrea Lewis (2006) Journeys to the Interior, Unseen Works by Irma Stern 1929-1939, Cape Town: Kaplan Kushlick Foundation, illustrated in colour on page 22.
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