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Strauss & Co to host a comprehensive single-artist auction of works by Irma Stern www.straussart.co.za
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trauss & Co is proud to announce details of a single-artist sale of the highly important artist Irma Stern, to be held at Welgemeend Manor House in Cape Town on Wednesday, 8 June 2022. Titled Irma Stern: Time | Line, this boutique sale of 140 works from the Irma Stern Trust Collection and other private properties will feature rare paintings, drawings, prints, books and a stoneware piece that collectively span the entirety of Stern’s prolific and distinguished career.
The bulk of the works in Irma Stern: Time | Line are derived from the Irma Stern Trust Collection. To commemorate 56 years since inception of the Irma Stern Trust, Nedgroup Trust (Pty) Ltd, Trustees of the Irma Stern Trust, have released 124 artworks from its Collection, many of which have never been exhibited before. The benefit of this sale will be to strengthen the Collection for the future by preserving the Collection and making it accessible by developing the existing Irma Stern Trust website into an important research resource. In doing so, the trustees bring Irma Stern’s aim of promoting fine arts within and outside South Africa to fruition, as is stipulated in the artist’s final will and testament.
Above: Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966, Seated Zanzibar Woman, signed and dated 1942, gouache on paper on a raffia mount, 38 by 27,5cm, R 200 000 - 300 000. Opposite Page: Irma Stern, SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966, Portrait of a Girl, signed and dated 1953, oil on board, 60 by 39,5cm , R 500 000 - 700 000
(A detailed explanation of the Trust’s formation and mandate appears in the print catalogue and e-catalogue for Irma Stern: Time | Line, and is also available on request.) The contents of Irma Stern: Time | Line will be presented chronologically and opens with seven lithographs from the artist’s print portfolio Visionen (Visions), published in 1920 by the Berlin-based Hesperiden Verlag. The sale features works made in every decade from 1920 until the artist’s death in 1966, with many of her major themes covered, notably portraiture, travel pictures, nudes, religious subjects and marine scenes. Right: Irma Stern, SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966, Wood Carriers, signed and dated 1960, ballpoint pen and gouache on sketchbook paper sheet size: 28 x 24cm, R 150 000 - 200 000
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