Strauss & co - 7 September 2009, Johannesburg

108 94 Stanley Pinker south african 1924 – A Self Portrait as a Cactus (In Search of a NewMuse) signed; inscribed with the title on a label on the reverse pencil and oil on canvas in the artist’s painted wooden frame 58 by 67 cm R300 000 – 400 000 provenance Louis and Charlotte Schachat Collection The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg literature Michael Stevenson, Stanley Pinker , Cape Town November 2004, page 81 (illustrated in colour).