Strauss & co - 26 September 2011, Cape Town

150 294 Irma STERN SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Two Arabs signed and dated 1939 oil on canvas, in the original Zanzibar frame 58 by 84cm, excluding frame 75 by 97cm, including frame R20 000 000 – 25 000 000 PROVENANCE Louis and Charlotte Schachat EXHIBITED Rembrandt Art Centre, Johannesburg; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Hulde aan - Homage to Irma Stern, 1968, catalogue number 18, with the title Ibrahim and Abdullah LITERATURE Marion Arnold, Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye, Fernwood Press, 1995, page 116, illustrated, with the title Two Arabs in a Teashop Buyers who may want to export this lot must obtain an export permit issued by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. The refusal of an export permit shall not permit the rescission of a sale.