Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 8 October 2009

Part II - The Leslie Milner Collectiom

Sold for

ZAR 2 116 600
Lot 208
  • Irma Stern; Still Life with Tiger Lilies, Fruit and a Melon


Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 200 000 - 1 600 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 2 116 600

About this Item

South African 1894-1966
Still Life with Tiger Lilies, Fruit and a Melon

signed and dated 1944

oil on canvas
56,5 by 41,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Irma Stern had a penchant for painting tiger lilies.   Marion Arnold, in A Feast for the Eye, Cape Town, 1995, illustrates two further still lifes with tiger lilies, see pp 133 and 145.   The still life illustrated on p 145, executed in 1947, closely resembles this work in terms of composition and use of colour.

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