Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 8 October 2009

Part II - Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Sculpture

Sold for

ZAR 66 840
Lot 309
  • Karin Jaroszynska; Two Figures Wearing Ruffs


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 66 840

About this Item

Finnish/South African 1934-2014
Two Figures Wearing Ruffs

signed

oil on canvas
90 by 117cm excluding frame

Notes

"From the mid-Seventies, Karin Jaroszynska began to extend the iconographical boundaries of the intimate and curious world she had created.   In a fascinating range of large oil canvases she gave form to a unique community of mirror-image men and women, cloned from some doe-eyed, large-nosed, low-browed prototype of her remembering or dreaming.   These silent, listening figures inhabit their own time and space, ambiguous and remote from the here and now, alluding to a Mediaeval origin and yet unlike any actual Mediaeval scenes or images one can recall." Esmé Berman, Art & Artists of South Africa, Southern Book Publishers, third edition, 1996, p 222

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