Strauss & co - 13 November 2017, Johannesburg

172 239 Cathcart WilliamMethven SOUTH AFRICAN 1849–1925 Landscape signed; signed on the reverse watercolour on paper 33 by 42,5 cm R15 000 – 20 000 240 Merlyn Evans WELSH 1910–1973 Portrait of Hugh Tracey (Musicologist) signed, dated Sept. 1938 and inscribed with the title pencil on paper 56 by 38 cm R10 000 – 15 000 Merlyn Evans, the British abstract painter, fresh from exhibiting at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936, took up a teaching post at the Durban School of Art in 1938. His sitter, Hugh Tracey, a pioneering ethnomusicologist, recorded and archived authentic, traditional African music from 1921 to 1977. In 1954 he established the International Library of African Music. A SELECTION OF ARTWORKS FROM KWAZULU-NATAL | LOTS 239–298 239 240