Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 8 October 2009

Part II - Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Sculpture

Sold for

ZAR 4 233 200
Lot 277
  • Irma Stern; Still Life with Dahlias


Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 500 000 - 5 000 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 4 233 200

About this Item

South African 1894-1966
Still Life with Dahlias

signed and dated 1930

oil on canvas
92 by 67cm excluding frame

Exhibited

Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, July 2004

Literature

Marion Arnold, Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch, 1995, p 132, titled 'Flowers', illustrated

'The objects in Flowers (1930; p 132) and Tiger Lilies (1932; p 133) do not appear to be stage-managed but they represent a plausible reality.   These flowerpieces are interesting for their tense use of paint and assertive colour.   Painted just before and after Stern's Madeira crisis ..., the paintings are heavily worked in brush, the impasto surfaces overpainted and layered into dense shapes controlled by definitive outlines.' p 127

Andrea Lewis, Journeys to the Interior: Unseen Works by Irma Stern 1929-1939, Kaplan Kushlick Foundation, Cape Town, 2006, p 63, illus plate 13

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