Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

138 272 Maggie (Maria Magdalena) Laubser S OUTH A FRICAN 1886-1973 Water Carrier and Her Child , recto Landscape, verso oil on board 33,5 by 29cm R300 000 – 400 000 Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, Johannesburg, 3 November, 1976, lot 119 PROVENANCE Miss Wyatt-Stayt, acquired in 1940 LITERATURE Dalene Marais (comp), Maggie Laubser, her paintings, drawings and graphics, Johannesburg, 1994, cat no 476, p 177, illustrated Dalene Marais attributes this work to the Oortmanspoort period c 1924 - 1927 on the grounds of subject matter and the treatment of the formal elements.