17th Jul, 2017 17:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
101
Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Bushveld
oil on board
Artwork date: 1925
Signature details: signed and dated
Sold for R181,888
Estimated at R150,000 - R250,000
oil on board
Artwork date: 1925
Signature details: signed and dated
(1)
14.5 x 25 cm
Notes:
At the end of the Anglo Boer War (1902), when the young Pierneef returned to South Africa after studying at the Rotterdam Art Academy, he found in the Dutch born artist Frans Oerder a willing teacher. Oerder was known for his attempts ‘to capture the colour, light and sense of space particular to the Transvaal landscape’ (Berman 1983:313). Although Pierneef’s early work hardly deviated from the traditional impressionist-realist approach to the landscape painting he studied in Rotterdam, he followed Oerder’s example and excelled in capturing the essence of the Transvaal landscape. A number of exhibitions in the early 1920s proved so successful that Pierneef decided to become a full time artist and to set a trend for a unique South African style.By the time he was about to return to Europe on a study tour in 1925 Pierneef was exploring form more than content, and he had begun to outline forms and to separate colours accordingly. In Extensive Landscape Pierneef schematises the elements of vegetation, mountain and sky in simplified colours to support the perspective of the vast landscape – in hues of dried winter grass, ochre trees, layers of blue mountains and puffs of drifting clouds. Instead of producing a mere representation of the landscape, Pierneef subjects the forms of nature to a formal analysis, in order to discern the underlying structure of the scene and to simplify it to its essence (Fransen 1982:292).On a visual level a landscape such as this one serves as a precursor for the monumental landscapes with low horizon lines and vast skies that were to follow within the next few years. However, this landscape is also indicative, as Coetzee (1992:3) pointed out, of Pierneef’s characteristic approach that gives the viewer ‘the illusion of control, of the imposition of order on the chaotic world outside and therefore of the domination of the world outside’.
Johan Myburg
Sources:
Berman, E. (1983). Art & Artists of South Africa. Cape Town & Rotterdam: Balkema.
Coetzee, NJ. (1992). Land and Landscape: The Johannesburg Station Panels in Context. Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 17th Jul, 2017
Aspire Art Auctions’ second Johannesburg sale offered a selection of some of the best works produced by local and international artists available on the local market. Offerings included Cameroonian-born, Belgium-based, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Chilean, Eugenio Dittborn, and South Africans, William Kentridge, Kendell Geers, Louis Maqhubela, Cecil Skotnes, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, and Mohau Modisakeng, amongst others.
The sale was led by an international auction record of R1 200 320 achieved for a drawing, Children under Apartheid, by exiled South African artist Dumile Feni, as well as the successful sale of top international lot Golden Mask by renowned performance artist Marina Abramović.
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Saturday 15 July 2017 | 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday 16 July 2017 | 10 am – 4 pm
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