Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part I - Paintings, Watercolours and Prints
Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 111 400
About this Item
Irish/South African 1886-1964
News
signed
pencil and watercolour
33 by 48cm excluding frame
Exhibited
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Dorothy Kay Retrospective Exhibition, 1982, cat no 114, under the title The Public Library
Literature
Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, A Biography, Everything You Do is A Portrait of Yourself, AM Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, p 180. 'Amongst her work currently on the annual exhibition in the Arts Hall, which she had helped to hang, was the subject titled News, of "the two little old men reading in the Library - it has been bought by Mr Buisman for £18.18 - I do think it is the best thing I have ever done..."'
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