Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

216 513 Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Dahlias signed and dated 1947; inscribed with the artist’s name, address and the title on the stretcher oil on canvas 96 by 84cm R   –    PROVENANCE The Ben and Cecilia Jaffe Collection. By descent to Mrs Phyllis Levenstein. Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, 24 March 1994, lot 343. The Labia Family Trust. EXHIBITED Argus Gallery, Cape Town, 1947. Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, Irma Stern as a Flower Painter , February 1982. LITERATURE Marion Arnold (1995). Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye , Cape Town: Fernwood Press for the Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation. Page 126, illustrated in colour on page 124 with the title Still Life with Dahlias . Stephan Welz (1996). Art at Auction in South Africa: The Art Market Review 1969 to 1995 , Cape Town: Creda Press. Illustrated in colour on page 104. PROPERTY OF THE LABIA FAMILY TRUST LOTS 491-513