Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part II - Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Sculpture
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
About this Item
signed and dated 1930
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