Strauss & co - 5 June 2017, Johannesburg

96 129 Cecily Sash SOUTH AFRICAN 1924– Study for Target Composition signed and dated 73 gouache on paper 26 by 34 cm R25 000 – 35 000 This colourful gouache on paper study, related to the much larger 1973 Target Composition tapestry by Cecily Sash (right), encapsulates many of the elements of her visual language. Birds of various kinds emerged in her work between 1955 and 1963 and became a primary subject in her expressionistic compositions. In Target Composition birds appear out of abstracted figurative motifs surrounded by implied trees, an animal skull and thorns. The most insistent features of the artist’s vocabulary, stark colours, black with white and pale tints, and the essentially linear rhythms of her work are all evident in this work.