Strauss & co - 7 March 2011, Cape Town

224 Maggie (Maria Magdalena) Laubser SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Harvesting signed, inscribed on the reverse with the artist’s name, address and the date 27.12.71 oil on canvas laid down on board 44,5 by 40cm R200 000–300 000 LITERATURE Dalene Marais, Maggie Laubser: her paintings, drawings and graphics , Perskor Publishers, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1994, p 383, catalogue no 1737 114 111 222 Moses Kottler SOUTH AFRICAN 1892-1977 The Thinker bronze, the second of two casts height: 65,5cm R80 000–100 000 Of the eight Johannesburg Public Library figures, that of Philosophy differs from the others in that it bears no attribute but is based on Rodin’s Thinker . According to Ute Ben Yosef (p 47) “Kottler felt pleased with this piece and made a reduced bronze copy with a simulated architectural background”. LITERATURE Ute Ben Yosef, The Graven Image: The Life and Work of Moses Kottler , Cape Town, 1989, catalogue no 23, p 73 (illustration of the other cast)