Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

444 446 445 444 Pranas DOMSAITIS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 880-1965 Two Horses in a Field oil on canvas 48 by 63cm R20 000–30 000 445 Pranas DOMSAITIS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 880-1965 Spring signed with the artist’s monogram oil on canvas 59 by 80cm R30 000–40 000 LITERATURE Elsa Verloren van Themaat. (1976) Pranas Domsaitis , Cape Town and Johannesburg: Struik. Page 8, illustrated in colour on page 25. “Even as a child he found an outlet in art. Shy and sensitive, he kept to himself and did not enjoy the rough games of his more robust schoolmates. When he was older his father expected him to help on the farm, but on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, when everybody else in the little farming community came together, Domsaitis preferred to paint on his own, depicting farm scenes, landscapes and animals. Spring , a romantic impressionist painting done before he had any tuition, shows the surprising technical ability on which he concentrated at this stage.” 446 Pranas DOMSAITIS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 880-1965 Landscape, Cropiens signed with the artist’s initials and dated 05 oil on canvas 29,5 by 42cm R40 000–60 000 A similar example is in the collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania. 172