Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

144 277 Irma Stern S OUTH A FRICAN 1894-1966 Still Life with Dahlias signed and dated 1930 oil on canvas 92 by 67cm R3 500 000 – 5 000 000 EXHIBITED Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, July 2004 LITERATURE Marion Arnold, Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch, 1995, p 132, titled ‘Flowers’, illustrated ‘The objects in Flowers (1930; p 132) and Tiger Lilies (1932; p 133) do not appear to be stage-managed but they represent a plausible reality. These flowerpieces are interesting for their tense use of paint and assertive colour. Painted just before and after Stern’s Madeira crisis ..., the paintings are heavily worked in brush, the impasto surfaces overpainted and layered into dense shapes controlled by definitive outlines.’p 127 Andrea Lewis, Journeys to the Interior: Unseen Works by Irma Stern 1929-1939, Kaplan Kushlick Foundation, Cape Town, 2006, p 63, illus plate 13