Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

190 498 Maggie (Maria Magdalena) LAUBSER SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Portrait of a Young Woman in a Blue Dress signed and dated ‘20; signed and dated 1920 on the reverse oil on canvas laid down on cardboard 34 by 28cm R150 000 – 250 000 PROVENANCE Acquired from the artist ca. 1965 by Mrs M E Pretorius, Bloemfontein, gift to Mr D P Theron, Bloemfontein LITERATURE Dalene Marais, Maggie Laubser: her paintings, drawings and graphics , Perskor Publishers, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1994, page 142, catalogue number 291, illustrated (with the title Portrait of a Woman with Head Scarf in a Blue Dress )