Strauss & co - 12 November 2012, Johannesburg

114 181 Rosamund King EVERARD-STEENKAMP south african 1907–1946 Still Life with Erythrina Caffra signed oil on canvas 105 by 73cm, including the artist’s painted frame R800 000 – 1 200 000 provenance The collection of Ruth Everard Haden. Private Collection. exhibited Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Retrospective Exhibition of the Everard Group , 1967. literature Harmsen, Frieda, The Women of Bonnefoi: The story of the Everard Group, J.L. van Schaik (Pty) Ltd, Pretoria, 1980, page 159, plate 184, illustrated. Crump, Alan, The Everard Phenomenon: An Exhibition of Paintings by the Everard Family , The Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 2000, page 119, catalogue number 49, illustrated. notes Flamboyant and unconventional, Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp was the youngest of the original members of what became known as The Everard Group. The Everard Group comprised of Edith King and Bertha Everard, Bertha’s daughters Ruth and Rosamund, and later Ruth’s daughter Leonora and Leonora’s daughter Nichola. Together they made up the remarkably creative family of women painters who lived in Carolina in Mpumalanga and span four generations. Isolated as they were from the artistic communities of Pretoria and Cape Town, they developed a visual language that has avoided many of the sentimentalities of 20th century South African painting. Rosamund spent time in London and Paris