Strauss & co - 7 March 2011, Cape Town

109 220 Moses Kottler SOUTH AFRICAN 1892-1977 Maquette for “Painting” bronze, dark brown patination height: 37cm R40 000–60 000 In 1935 Kottler completed eight figures for the Johannesburg Public Library. Each figure symbolizes a part of the content of the library. The figures represent Literature, Sculpture, Architecture, Medicine, Music, History, Philosophy and Painting. This is a cast of an early maquette for “Painting”. cf. Ute Ben Yosef, The Graven Image: The Life and Work of Moses Kottler , Cape Town, 1989, catalogue no 19, p 72