Aspire Art Auctions brings a significant and insightfully compiled selection of top-quality modern and contemporary art to auction in Cape Town. The sale stars exceptional works by many of South Africa’s big signatures, including, William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Penny Siopis, Edoardo Villa, Sydney Kumalo and J.H Pierneef, amongst others. Also featured is an exciting collection of contemporary artists from elsewhere in Africa – Patrick Bongoy and Zemba Luzamba from the Congo, Moustapha Baïdi Oumarou from Cameroon and Gerald Chukwuma from Nigeria.
Lot 1 - Nita Spilhaus (South Africa 1878-1967) Malay Quarter
Sold for R47,796
Lot 2 - Gregoire Boonzaier (South Africa 1909-2005) Malay Mosque, Chapel St, Cape Town
Sold for R85,350
Lot 3 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957) Zoutpansberg
Sold for R125,180
Lot 4 - Erik Laubscher (South Africa 1927-2013) Still Life with White Flowers
Estimated at R400,000 - R600,000
Lot 5 - Erik Laubscher (South Africa 1927-2013) Still Life with Black Bowl
Estimated at R400,000 - R600,000
Lot 7 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982) The Sleeper, a pair
Estimated at R50,000 - R80,000
Lot 8 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982) Zebras and horses in a landscape
Sold for R62,590
Lot 9 - Lynn Chadwick R.A. (United Kingdom 1914-2003) Miniature Figure III
Estimated at R200,000 - R300,000
Lot 11 - Cecil Skotnes (South Africa 1926-2009) Metamorphosis of a Wreck
Estimated at R50,000 - R70,000
Lot 12 - Alexis Preller (South Africa 1911-1975) A study of Van Gogh's 'Room in Arles'
Sold for R136,560
Lot 13 - Alexis Preller (South Africa 1911-1975) Figure with bangles
Estimated at R80,000 - R120,000
Lot 14 - Gladys Mgudlandlu (South Africa 1925-1979) Landscape with rondawels
Estimated at R60,000 - R90,000
Lot 15 - Christopher Uchefuna Okeke (Nigeria 1933-2016) Plant Form from Uli Grove
Estimated at R80,000 - R120,000
Lot 17 - Hugo Naudé (South Africa 1869-1941) Namakwaland
Sold for R81,936
Lot 18 - Hugo Naudé (South Africa 1869-1941) Seascape, Hermanus
Sold for R28,450
Lot 19 - Hugo Naudé (South Africa 1869-1941) Namaqualand
Sold for R113,800
Lot 20 - Ruth Everard Haden (South Africa 1904-1992) Landscape Near Lekkerdraai
Estimated at R120,000 - R180,000
Lot 21 - Tinus De Jongh (South Africa 1885-1942) Landscape with grazing cattle
Sold for R170,700
Lot 22 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957) Extensive landscape, near Golden Gate
Estimated at R800,000 - R1,200,000
Lot 24 - Erik Laubscher (South Africa 1927-2013) Sunset over the Overberg
Sold for R227,600
Lot 25 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982) Limpopo Rocks
Sold for R136,560
Lot 27 - Sydney Kumalo (South Africa 1935-1988) Mythological Rider II (Study for Mythological Rider)
Estimated at R1,000,000 - R1,500,000
Lot 29 - Ephraim Ngatane (South Africa 1938-1971) The donkey cart
Sold for R91,040
Lot 30 - Edoardo Villa (South Africa 1915-2011) Sculpture III
Sold for R1,024,200
Lot 33 - Eleanor Esmonde-White (South Africa 1914-2007) Two women in conversation
Estimated at R40,000 - R60,000
Lot 34 - Sidney Goldblatt (South Africa 1919-1979) Figures at a market
Estimated at R20,000 - R30,000
Lot 36 - Alexis Preller (South Africa 1911-1975) Figure with cup
Sold for R54,624
Lot 37 - Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010) Men with Structures I
Sold for R330,000
Lot 38 - Alexis Preller (South Africa 1911-1975) Water carrier (red)
Estimated at R300,000 - R500,000
Lot 39 - Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010) Left out of Making Love in the Shadows
Sold
Lot 40 - Trevor Coleman (South Africa 1936-) Upthrust
Sold for R38,692
Lot 41 - Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010) Office Redecoration
Sold for R50,072
Lot 43 - Hennie Niemann Jnr (South Africa 1972-) Friends
Sold for R102,420
Lot 45 - Walter Meyer (South Africa 1965-2017) Farm yard
Sold for R68,280
Lot 46 - Gregoire Boonzaier (South Africa 1909-2005) Stillewe met bakkie en Vrugte
Sold for R45,520
Lot 47 - Conrad Theys (South Africa 1940-) Red Nasturtiums
Sold for R34,140
Lot 48 - Paul Wunderlich (Germany 1927-2010) Portrait of a woman
Sold for R68,280
