Irma Stern

Yosef Nevo, Israel (a gift from I.U.A., South Africa in 1959)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2015

Executed on cream wove paper and taped to the mount along all four edges. The sheet is time stained and undulating along all four edges due to mounting. There are spots of foxing in places, most prominently to the upper right corner and there is some mount staining along all four edges. This work is in overall good condition.
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The present work was executed during the artist's trips to the Transkei and Pondoland, during which Stern travelled through rural landscape, engaging with the local people, and working en plein air. She produced a series of magnificent charcoals during these trips in the mid-1930s, among which the present work counts as a particularly fine example, prefiguring the mature works that Stern completed during her journeys to the Congo many years later.