Strauss & co - 16 October 2017, Cape Town

190 488 Frank Sydney Spears SOUTH AFRICAN 1906-1991 Riders signed oil on board 60 by 70cm R  –   LITERATURE Melissa Sutherland. (2014) Frank Spears - The Painter , Hout Bay: Michael John Spears and Rosalind Mary Spears. Illustrated in colour on page X. 489 Nel Erasmus SOUTH AFRICAN 1928- Autumn Cat signed oil on canvas 49,5 by 65cm R  –   Title provided by the artist. This lot was painted in the late 1950s while Erasmus lived in Hillbrow with her black cat, the subject of this painting. The artist recalls that it was included in her first solo exhibition at the Lidchi Art Gallery in 1957. 488 489