Strauss & co - 24 May 2010, Johannesburg

128 234 Anton vanWouw south african 1862–1945 Die Noitjie van die Onderveld – Transvaal Rustenburg Sijn Distrikt signed and inscribed with the title and ‘S. A. Joh-burg, 1907’and ‘Foundry G. Massa, Rome’on the base bronze with deep honey brown patina Height: 42 cm R150 000 – 200 000 provenance Dr. S.H. Pellissier, and thence by descent literature A.E. Duffey, Anton van Wouw: The Smaller Works , Pretoria, 2008, page 56 (illustration of another cast.) M.J. Cohen, Anton van Wouw: Sculptor of South African Life, Johannesburg, 1938, page 25 (illustration of another cast.)