Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

135 491 Gerhard Batha SOUTH AFRICAN 1937- Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794, after Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg signed oil on canvas 146 by 187cm R50 000 - 70 000 490 Alexander Podlashuc SOUTH AFRICAN 1930-2009 Fishing Harbour, Port Elizabeth, April 1966 signed and dated 1966; inscribed with the title on the reverse oil on canvas laid down on board 43 by 60cm R40 000 - 60 000 PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 15 March 2010, lot 223. 489 Dorothy Kay SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1964 Tug ‘Talana’ on the Slipway signed; inscribed with the artist’s name and title on a South African National Gallery label on the stretcher oil on canvas 63,5 by 59cm R40 000 - 60 000 EXHIBITED South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition , 26 June to 8 August 1982, catalogue number 12 with the title Tug ‘Talana’ on the Slipway . LITERATURE Marjorie Reynolds (1989) Dorothy Kay: Everything You Do Is A Portrait Of Yourself, A Biography , Rosebank: Alec Marjorie Reynolds. With the title Overhauling the Tug “Talana” . Page 35 and illustrated on page 36 in a black and white photograph taken in Dorothy Kay’s living room. Also known as Lord Howe’s Action , this painting depicts the victory of the British naval forces under Lord Howe over a French force led by Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. The original is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. 489 490