Property of a Gentleman
Irma Stern
Two Swahili Girls, Zanzibar
Auction Closed
March 5, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Irma Stern
1894 - 1966
Two Swahili Girls, Zanzibar
signed Irma Stern and dated 1945 (upper right); signed Irma Stern, inscribed with the artist's address and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas in the artist's frame
55 by 63 cm. 21⅝ by 24¾ in.
with artist's frame: 60 by 69 cm. 23⅝ by 27⅛ in.
Executed in 1945.
We are grateful to Phillippa Duncan for her assistance in cataloguing this work.
Private Collection, Australia (by 1980s)
Louis Schachat
Acquired from the above in 2007 by the present owner
Cape Town, Argus Gallery, Irma Stern, 1947
Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Irma Stern: Peintures d'Afrique, 1947, no. 12, illustrated
Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Kerst-tentoonstelling: Zuid-Afrikaanse Kunstwerken van Irma Stern, 1948
Irma Stern, Zanzibar, Pretoria, 1948, illustrated
Andrée Viollis, 'Irma Stern , peintre pan-africain', in Les Lettres Françaises, 1948
Carol Kaufmann and Andrea Lewis, eds., Brushing up on Stern: Featuring works from the permanent collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2015, p. 17, illustrated in colour