Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

163 456 Nel (Petronella Margaretha) ERASMUS SOUTH AFRICAN 1928 Throes 1981/1982 signed acrylic on canvas 88,5 by 58,5cm R8 000 – 10 000 LITERATURE Maralize van Zyl (ed.), Nel Erasmus , SMAC Art Publishing, Stellenbosch, 2011, page 108, illustrated in colour (image inverted) 457 Pieter VAN DER WESTHUIZEN SOUTH AFRICAN 1931-2008 Figures with Birds and Trees signed and dated 84 mixed media on paper 60,5 by 91cm R40 000 – 60 000 NOTES “Throes (1982) again suggests some kind of internal chaos or excess. The quick, brightly coloured lines of this portrait reveal, after some scrutiny, a mouth, a nose, what may be eyes; a person (who may be male or female) crashing on waves of emotion.” Linda Stupart, ‘The Life of Forms/The Forms of Life,’ in Maralize van Zyl (ed.), Nel Erasmus , page 108 456 457