Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

116 249 Frederick Timpson I’Ons S OUTH A FRICAN 1802-1887 The Old Oyster Man at the Kowie signed, the reverse stamped with Eric, the artist’s name and 1877 oil on card, mounted on board 40 by 34cm, oval R50 000 – 70 000 PROVENANCE GL Galpin: EW Galpin: WH Galpin EXHIBITED King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, 1990, Frederick I’Ons Retrospective Exhibition, cat no 53 LITERATURE JJ Redgrave & Edna Bradlow, Frederick I’Ons, Artist, Cape Town, 1958, illustrated plate 8. The old oyster man was a Portuguese half-caste who lived in a shack on the beach at the Kowie.