Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

181 PROPERTY OF A LADY LOTS 586-590 588 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1957 Willow Trees on a River Bank signed and dated 28 oil on artist’s board 29,5 by 39,5cm R300 000 - 500 000 PROVENANCE Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby’s, Johannesburg, 4 November 1991, lot 281. Private Collection. A recurring theme in Pierneef’s work is the willow tree, referred to by Pierneef as ‘wilkers’, along the Vaal River and especially along the pools formed by the Pienaars River on the farm Roodeplaat, north of Pretoria - although Pierneef always called it ‘Rooiplaat’. DM Joubert (1990) Preface, in JH Pierneef: His Life and His Works . PG Nel (ed.) Perskor: Cape Town and Johannesburg.