Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

186 Strauss & co contemporary art auction Claire Gavronsky works in a variety of mediums, most notably in painting and sculpture. Her work often uses visual reference to historical paintings, and cues are sometimes taken from events from everyday life. Memory, racism, violence against women and children 66 Claire Gavronsky SOUTH AFRICAN b1957 Circa 14th C - 21st C signed and dated 2009 on the reverse oil on linen 300 by 300cm R150 000 – 200 000 EXHIBITED Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France, Sphères , 24 October 2009 to 30 May 2010. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, rosenclaire: Immaterial Matters , 2012. “While the basis of her approach is in stylistic pastiche, she successfully avoids caricature and engages in an assured and skilled engagement with art history and individual painters and works.” 1 are some of the themes which run through her oeuvre. Her work also bridge sometimes complex narratives through overlaid images, and stories which link the past to the present. 1. James Sey,‘Rosenclaire’,Art South Africa, vol 10,Winter 2012, page 66.