Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

256 525 François KRIGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1913–1994 The Old Harbour, Hermanus signed and dated 40 oil on canvas 36 by 46,5 cm R  –   ‘While he lived on the Cape Peninsula, particularly during the decade following the war, Krige returned to the kind of fishing villages he had loved to frequent as a child growing up along the Onrus coast. Hundreds of his studies of fishing boats, hamlets and the traditional life style of Coloured fishermen from all over the Western Cape abound. We see old sailing craft, genre scenes of men repairing their nets, boat- builders at work on vessels and the wrecked carcasses of others washed up on the beach. Trek fishermen surf their boats home and drag in nets shimmering with fish; some sleep off the early morning voyage on the sand beside their craft, while others celebrate a good catch in the dingy local bar. We see the ubiquitous whitewashed PROVENANCE Dr van Ryneveld van der Horst, Clocolan, and thence by descent