Strauss & co - 5 June 2017, Johannesburg

189 232 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef SOUTH AFRICAN 1886–1957 Storm Over the Lowveld signed and dated 42 oil on board 44,5 by 60 cm R500 000 – 700 000 The many sketches of clouds in the South African National Archives in Pretoria, and the significant number of oils featuring clouds beyond the landscape, attest to Pierneef’s fascination with this subject matter. The present lot depicts one such typical cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering over a flattened, wintery lowveld landscape with a shadowed foreground, and a slim line of deep blue mountains on the horizon that dramatically contrast with the reflecting sunlight. A similar work, Wolke , from 1952, forms part of the Pierneef collection in the La Motte Museum, Franschoek.