Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

400 Moses KOTTLER SOUTH AFRICAN 1 892-1977 Mapula signed bronze, on a marble base height: 36,5cm excluding base, 39,5cm including base R40 000–60 000 318 400 401 401 After Anton VAN WOUW SOUTH AFRICAN 2 0 TH CENTURY The Basuto Witness stamped with the artist’s name and ‘Joh-burg’ bronze with a brown patina, mounted on a wooden base height: 34,5cm including base R35 000–45 000 PROVENANCE The Schweickerdt Collection EXHIBITED Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg and SA National Art Gallery, Cape Town, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition , 1974-75, catalogue number 52. LITERATURE U Ben Yosef. (1989) The Graven Image: The Life and Work of Moses Kottler, Johannesburg: Perskor. Illustrated on page 102, number 79. According to Yosef (1989:102) the sculpture is dated 1957 and consists of five further casts, four in private collections and one in the Sanlam Collection, Cape Town. 400 155