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254 689 Rosamund King EVERARD–STEENKAMP SOUTH AFRICAN 1907–1946 Wheatfields near Kimpton executed in 1924 signed oil on panel 26,5 by 34,5 cm R80 000–120 000 LITERATURE Harmsen, Frieda. (1980) The Women of Bonnefoi: The story of the Everard Group , Pretoria: Van Schaik. Illustrated on page 93, number 96. ‘In the following year, that is 1924, when Rosamund joined her mother and sister in painting wheatlands near Kimpton, she used pattern to convey emotion. Rosamund’s little panel - so much like her mother’s version of the same subject that only the discrete signature convinces the viewer of it authorship - links with the almost contemporary expressionist work of the young Maggie Laubser who was also painting in Europe at that time. The advance made by the young Rosamund, particularly in the projection of mood, is remarkable, and demonstrates pointedly how the inadvertently exerted influence of the two trained artists, Bertha and Ruth, had been absorbed.’ 690 Pieter Hugo NAUDÉ SOUTH AFRICAN 1868–1941 Namaqualand signed oil on canvas laid down on cardboard 24 by 34 cm R40 000–60 000 689 690