Strauss & co - 24 May 2010, Johannesburg

157 260 Johannes Petrus Meintjes south african 1923–1980 Herd Boy II signed and dated 1958 oil on board 59 by 47 cm R80 000 – 120 000 literature cf. F.L. Alexander, Art in South Africa Since 1900 , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1962, illustrated in black and white on page 99, Herd Boy, 1958 (JM Cat No. 598) There were three versions of Herd Boy . Meintjes destroyed Herd Boy I in 1960 and Herd Boy III was publised in Alexander’s Art in SA , Panorama , Lantern and Die Vaderland .