Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

200 601 Robert Gwelo GOODMAN SOUTH AFRICAN 1 871-1939 Interior of the Groote Kerk, Cape Town signed with the artist’s initials, executed in 1916 oil on canvas 74,5 by 62cm R80 000–120 000 LITERATURE Joyce Newton Thompson. (circa 1951) Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Page 64, illustrated between pages 20 and 21. NOTES “The Interior of the Groote Kerk [...] is a technically triumphant painting.”Joyce Newton Thompson, page 64 “The Groote Kerk was built essentially as a ‘preaching box’: the idea was that as many worshipers as possible, seated in their box pews, would have a good view of a centrally located, elevated pulpit constructed with sounding boards that will have helped in the preacher’s being heard. The design of these pulpits often inspired the creation of elaborate structures; the pulpit in the Groote Kerk is a really good example of one. Here raised on a pedestal of lions it’s a triumph of the work of Anton Anreith (1789), a sculptor who began life in the Dutch East India Company’s employ as a labourer and who ended up renowned for his accomplished high-baroque style of work.”Paul Duncan and Alain Proust. (2013) Hidden Cape Town, Cape Town: Struik Lifestyle. Page 15.