Strauss & co - 13 November 2017, Johannesburg

198 274 Fée Halsted SOUTH AFRICAN 1958– Splash signed and dated 79 gouache on paper 24 by 34 cm R15 000 – 20 000 Fée Halsted, joint-winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1990, is best known as the creative force behind the famed and much-loved Ardmore Ceramic Studio. The present lot, however, from 1979, is an early student work from her time at the University of Natal. It shows a mesmerizing, ever-reflecting pool, interpreted with sinuous lines of turquoise and calligraphic flicks in teal. The electricity in the water is offset by the drying, concrete slabs and tired, sagging fence. 275 Bonakele (Bonnie) Ntshalintshali SOUTH AFRICAN 1967–1999 Ukuzalwa Kukajesu signed, dated 95, numbered 31/65, inscribed with the title in pencil and embossed with the Caversham Press chop mark in the margin colour screenprint image size: 44 by 64,5 cm; sheet size: 64 by 76,5 cm R5 000 – 8 000 After winning the Corobrik National Ceramic Award in 1988, Bonnie Ntshalintshali won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award jointly with Fée Halsted in 1990. Based on her important, sculptural and complex arrangements of animals and figures, Bonnie’s screenprints, pulled nearby the Ardmore Ceramic Studio at the Caversham Press in the mid-1990s, are wildly coloured, whimsical and endlessly engaging. A SELECTION OF ARTWORKS FROM KWAZULU-NATAL | LOTS 239–298 274 275