20th Apr, 2024 18:00

TAKING FLIGHT: Selected Works from the Phoenix Collection

 
  Lot 5
 
Lot 5 - Maggie Laubser (South Africa 1886-1973)

5

Maggie Laubser (South Africa 1886-1973)
Still Life with Flowers

oil on canvas

Signature details: signed bottom left
Literature: Marais, D. (1994). 'Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics'. Johannesburg: Perskor Publishers., illustrated in black and white on p. 307. catalogue number 1267.

Estimated at R280,000 - R340,000

 

oil on canvas

Signature details: signed bottom left
Literature: Marais, D. (1994). 'Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics'. Johannesburg: Perskor Publishers., illustrated in black and white on p. 307. catalogue number 1267.

(1)

39.5 x 49.5 cm; framed size: 74 x 84 x 7 cm

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by Mr G.J. Jansen, thence by descent.
Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, Fine Art and Collectables, 9 September 2014, lot 310.
Private Collection, London.

COLLECTOR'S NOTE

  • Maggie Laubser currently features in the prestigious, 60th International Art Exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere, at The Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and running from 20 April to 24 November 2024.
  • The Norval Foundation in Cape Town recently exhibited Maggie Laubser Portraits and the Landscape:1886 - 1973, from 1 April to 30 November 2023. The exhibition reflected on Laubser’s prolific artistic journey as one of South Africa’s most influential female painters.
  • In 1969, a retrospective exhibition of Laubser’s works was held at both the South African National Gallery, Cape Town and the Pretoria Art Museum. This was followed by a second retrospective of her early works also at the South African National Gallery in 1987.
  • Celebrated with important awards in her lifetime Laubser’s achievements included the Medal of Honour by the South African Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art) (1946); the Oscar Award for painting from the Die Vanderland newspaper in 1947 and a Medal of Honour from the South African Association of the Arts for the Cape Region in 1968.
  • In 1994, the catalogue raisonné, Maggie Laubser, her paintings, drawings and graphics was compiled by Dalene Marais. It lists 1 784 individual works by Laubser and remains an authoritative resource on her work and one of the most comprehensive catalogue raisonnés to be published on a South African artist.

COLLECTIONS:

The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; Durban Art Gallery; A. C. White Gallery, Bloemfontein and the Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch.

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Auction: TAKING FLIGHT: Selected Works from the Phoenix Collection, 20th Apr, 2024

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