Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

164 413 MarjorieWallace SOUTH AFRICAN 1925-2005 The Yellow Shape signed oil on canvas 81,5 by 64cm R  –   EXHIBITED University Museum, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, Marjorie Wallace , 24 April to 16 May 1991, catalogue number 50. According to Wallace, as told to the current owner at her exhibition in 1991, the man in the blue costume was Simon Rapaport, well known wine critic, his wife and daughter in the foreground. The figure in the red Speedo in the background, according to Amanda Botha, is Ben de Kock, the then arts editor of Die Burger who was married to Rapaport’s daughter (seated at the table). Rapaport was for many years the chairman of the SA Association of Arts (Western Cape) whose holiday home neighboured Marjorie and her husband Jan’s home in Onrus. 414 MarjorieWallace SOUTH AFRICAN 1925-2005 Marjorie Wallace and Uys Krige on Onrus Beach (Early Days) signed; inscribed with the title in another hand on the reverse mixed media on paper 52 by 73cm R  –   PROVENANCE A gift from the artist to the current owner. 414 413