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Upcoming Auction Highlights
LIVE VIRTUAL AUCTION | On view in Johannesburg
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 7pm with pre-auction sundowners beginning at 6pm
Irma Stern
Woman with Veil
R 250 000 – 350 000
Frans Oerder
Still Life with Violets
R 120 000 – 150 000
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef
Kaneel Meul, Seychelles
R 80 000 – 120 000
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef
Wild Fig Tree, Northern Transvaal
R 600 000 – 800 000
Featured Artist
Gerard Sekoto
Gerard Sekoto is recognised as a pioneer of black South African modernism. He was born at Botshabelo Lutheran mission station in Mpumalanga in 1913 and studied at Grace Dieu, an Anglican training college for black school teachers. He worked as a teacher until 1939 when he moved to Johannesburg to pursue a career as an artist. Sekoto lived in the vibrant multiracial community of Sophiatown and the rich colour of his paintings from this time captures the reality of living in the townships, but with sensitivity, dignity, and a sense of calmness despite the harsh realities of life under apartheid. Sekoto went into self-imposed exile in Paris in 1947 where he worked as an artist and musician until his death in 1993. He was designated a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and posthumously received the Order of Ikhamanga for achievement in the arts from the South African government.