Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

174 THE LATE PETER AND REGINA STRACK COLLECTION LOTS 581-585 581 Adolph Jentsch GERMAN/NAMIBIAN 1888-1977 Sunset Landscape with Trees signed with the artist’s initials and dated 1944; signed twice, numbered 118 and inscribed ‘Sudwest Afrika’on the stretcher, further numbered 88 on a Peter and Regina Strack accession label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 46 by 70cm R500 000 - 700 000 PROVENANCE The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection. The following five lots are from the Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection of which nineteen were sold by Strauss & Co in Cape Town, October 2018. Assembled over the course of fifty years, the Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection is widely regarded as featuring some of the finest pieces of Namibian Art to have come to market. This selection features three landscape paintings by Adolph Jentsch and two figural works by Fritz Krampe. Depicting the Namibian landscape in a variety of moods, Jentsch reveals his painterly command of light in Sunset Landscape and Trees and An Extensive Namibian Landscape , whilst his scroll- like composition of Gras Landschaft (Grass Landscape) illustrates to the modernist influences of oriental art. The two accompanying lots by Fritz Krampe show the artist’s illustrative hand in which he depicts the exotic forces of tribal Africa in Masken ( Masks) and the elegance and power of its wildlife in Adler ( Eagle) , a subject that can be found in preliminary sketches from the period. A further 36 lots from the Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection will be sold on the StraussOnline auction from Monday 18 to Monday 25 November 2019.