Strauss & co - 6 February 2012, Cape Town

151 484 Tinus (Marthinus Johannes) DE JONGH SOUTH AFRICAN 1885-1942 A Cottage in a Clearing signed oil on canvas 30 by 49cm R20 000 – 30 000 483 Tinus (Marthinus Johannes) DE JONGH SOUTH AFRICAN 1885-1942 Landscape with Cottage signed oil on canvas 31 by 46cm R20 000 – 30 000 485 Sydney CARTER SOUTH AFRICAN 1874-1945 Cape Houses in the Shade signed oil on canvas laid down on board 34 by 45cm R15 000 – 20 000 482 Tinus (Marthinus Johannes) DE JONGH SOUTH AFRICAN 1885-1942 Landscape with Mountains signed oil on canvas 30 by 49cm R18 000 – 24 000 Malta Farm, located along the Liesbeeck, was originally called Uitkyk, when owned by Jan van Riebeek. Observatory traces its origins to the Koornhoop Colony land grant in 1657, which made land in the Liesbeeck River valley available to officials from the Dutch East India Company. It’s possible that Naudé saw some of the many paintings that his contemporary, Pieter Wenning, painted of this landmark farm. However, Naudé gives this painting his own inimitable touch – the air seems fresh, the light sparkles and the garden erupts with blue hydrangeas, confirming that it must have been painted in mid summer. 1. Hans Fransen in an email to Emma Bedford, 26 November 2011 2. Helen Robinson, The Villages of the Liesbeeck: From the Sea to the Source, Houghton House, Wynberg, 2011 485 483 482