Strauss & co - 20 May 2019, Johannesburg

56 110 Brian Bradshaw SOUTH AFRICAN 1923–2016 Granite and Bush signed and indistinctly dated; inscribed with the title on the reverse; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and the medium on an Everard Read label adhered to the reverse acrylic on canvas 92 by 137 cm R25 000 – 40 000 PROVENANCE Everard Read, Johannesburg. Brian Bradshaw founded one of the most important art schools in South Africa, at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, in 1960, and taught there until his retirement in 1980. His influence can be seen in the work of those who studied under him. His strong views about art and no-nonsense approach to working directly from nature without sentimentality or pretension, initiated a school whose leading exponents were part of what became known as the Grahamstown Group. Passionate about topography, vegetation and the unique quality of light, Bradshaw drew inspiration from the southern African landscape, painting in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Dating from the 1990s, the present Lot is a monumental work, executed boldly with broad areas of richly coloured and textured paint covering the surface, done with loaded brush and palette knife. These powerful elemental works capture the artist’s great vitality, and demonstrate his confident technique and approach to painting. 111 Terrence Patrick SOUTH AFRICAN 1944– The Kaokoveld signed and dated 2012 acrylic on board 62 by 103 cm R18 000 – 24 000