Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

162 396 Jacob Hendrik PIERNEEF SOUTH AFRICAN 1 886-1957 Portret van ‘n Voortrekker (Nilant 136) signed, dated 1915, and inscribed ‘impr’ in pencil in the margin linocut image size: 25 by 18cm R18 000–24 000 LITERATURE JFW Grosskopf. (1945) Hendrik Pierneef, Die Man en sy Werk . Pretoria: van Schaik. Plate number 27. PG Nel (ed.) (1990) JH Pierneef, His Life and His Work , Cape Town and Johannesburg: Perskor. Illustrated on page 182. This image was used as the jacket design for Trekkerswee , by Totius, (Prof JD du Toit), 1915. 396 397 Jacob Hendrik PIERNEEF SOUTH AFRICAN 1 886-1957 Huis van Generaal Smit, Pretoria (Nilant 29) signed and dated 1913 in pencil in the margin linocut 13,5 by 25,5cm R12 000–16 000 398 Johannes Petrus MEINTJES SOUTH AFRICAN 1 923-1980 Portrait of General De La Rey signed and dated 65; inscribed with the title and the artist’s name on the reverse oil on panel 31,5 by 23,5cm (2) R40 000–60 000 PROVENANCE Mrs Cecily Niven (Sir Percy FitzPatrick’s daughter) LITERATURE Kobus Opperman. (2007) Die Dagboek van Johannes Meintjes , (unpublished). Volume VIII, pages 114, 144, 243, 245, 248, 249 and 255; Volume IX, page 27. The Diary of Johannes Meintjes , catalogue number JM 880. This painting was originally intended as the cover for Meintjes’book, De La Rey, Lion of the West , published in 1966 by Hugh Keartland, Johannesburg. A copy of this book is included in this lot. Two entries from Meintjes’unpublished diary manuscript (‘Dagboek VIII) relate: 7 July 1965 : ‘Ernest Stanton [Hugh Keartland Publishers, Johannesburg] phoned me in a state of great excitement yesterday afternoon. They apparently received a large volume of material relating to General De la Rey and they are now looking for a suitable biographer. And because they were so impressed by my Olive Schreiner , could I?, would I? A commission’. 11 November 1965 : ‘Work is progressing well. DLR [manuscript of book on De la Rey] is at page 245 and I have just completed a good portrait of him in oil, intended as cover for the book’. 397