Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

248 540 Maggie Laubser SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Woman Harvester Resting among Sheaves signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘20 oil on board 24 by 31cm R  –   PROVENANCE Mrs Lategan, Johannesburg. Dr and Mrs T Burger, Stellenbosch. LITERATURE Dalene Marais (1994). Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics , Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor. Illustrated on page 150, catalogue number 333. This early work by Maggie Laubser, executed in Holland in 1920 before she returned to South Africa, depicts a motif that she would return to throughout her career: the harvest, as inspired by life on her family farms, Bloublommetjieskloof and Oortmanspoort. In a departure from her usual harvesting scenes, Laubser has instead portrayed this woman at rest and has rendered her in muted colours and simplified forms; imbuing the painting with the sense of tranquillity needed for a respite. ©The Estate of Maggie Laubser | DALRO