Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

51 95 Dorothy Moss Kay S OUTH A FRICAN 1886-1964 News signed pencil and watercolour 33 by 48cm R60 000 – 90 000 EXHIBITED South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Dorothy Kay Retrospective Exhibition, 1982, cat no 114, under the title The Public Library LITERATURE Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, A Biography, Everything You Do is A Portrait of Yourself, AM Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, p 180. ‘Amongst her work currently on the annual exhibition in the Arts Hall, which she had helped to hang, was the subject titled News, of “the two little old men reading in the Library – it has been bought by Mr Buisman for £18.18 – I do think it is the best thing I have ever done...”’ 96 Enslin Hercules du Plessis S OUTH A FRICAN 1894-1978 Mecklenburgh Square, 1965 signed oil on canvas 50,5 by 76cm A gift from the artist to the current owner R50 000 – 70 000 97 Enslin Hercules du Plessis S OUTH A FRICAN 1894-1978 The Haystack signed oil on board 28 by 36,5cm R60 000 – 90 000 EXHIBITED The Royal Academy, London, The London Group Exhibition, 1945-6, cat no 48 97 96 95