Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

143 living in a wonderful world. My philosophy is that everything is beautiful”. 2 According to Elizabeth Delmont, this positive attitude found expression through a style of painting in which bright colours reflected her optimism. 3 Cottages nestle on the hillside and a sheep nibbles the grass in the foreground. A younger woman strides home with her baby on her back and a water vessel on her head while an older woman snoozes against the wall of her home. All is contentment and nothing disturbs the promise of a perfect day. 447 Maria Magdalena LAUBSER s OUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Fishermen’s Cottages with a Woman, Ducks and Boats signed oil on canvas 29,5 by 39cm R400 000 – 600 000 1. Dalene Marais, Maggie Laubser: her paintings, drawings and graphics, Perskor, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1994, page 52. 2. ‘Everything is Beautiful’, Star, City Late ed, 26 April 1962, page 12, column 3. 3. E Bedford and L McClelland, Maggie Laubser – Early Works from the Silberberg Collection, South African National Gallery, 1987, page 6. 447