Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part I - Paintings, Watercolours and Prints
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
About this Item
signed, inscribed on the reverse "This is the property of Chas E Peers, lithographer, St George's Street, Cape Town", and "From Jo Glossop"
Notes
In 1924 Allerley Glossop and Charles Peers went on a three week painting trip in a donkey wagon to the Drakensberg from Ladysmith. He kept a diary of the trip. This picture shows their wagon and the tents they occupied. In June of that year, probably at the conclusion of the trip, they had a joint exhitibion at the Taylor Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to Charles Peers, the current owner's grandfather
Exhibited
Taylor Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Allerley Glossop and Water Colour Sketches by Charles E Peers, 18 June 1924, a copy of the catalogue is included with this lot