Strauss & co - 5 June 2017, Johannesburg

127 177 Keith Alexander SOUTH AFRICAN 1946–1998 Untitled signed with the artist’s initials wood, mounted on a wooden base height: 35 cm, including base R10 000 – 15 000 178 Juliet Armstrong SOUTH AFRICAN 1950–2012 Bowl Form bone china (cast and manipulated) height: 13 cm R7 000 – 10 000 PROVENANCE Purchased directly from the artist. LITERATURE Brendan Bell and Bryony Clark (eds). (2014) For J uliet: Ceramic Sculptor 1950 to 2012 , Pietermaritzburg: The Tatham Art Gallery. Similar examples are illustrated in colour on pages 38 and 115. Deeply interested in Zulu ceramics and domestic, matriarchal ritual, yet trained in an Anglo-Oriental and modernist mode, Armstrong produced an exquisite body of folded, tucked and puckered vessels, all in brilliant bone china, that, when exhibited at The Tatham Art Gallery in 2014 after the artist’s death, attracted high praise. 178 177