Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

186 593 Maud Sumner Still Life with Proteas and Silvertree Leaves in a Vase 1946 signed oil on canvas 53,5 by 64cm R120 000 - 160 000 The present lot was painted in 1946 when Sumner was staying in Cape Town at the house of Professor Robert Harold Compton, Director of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens from 1919 - 1953, and founder of the Compton Herbarium. The vibrant proteas depicted include pin- cushion and silvertree leaves that the artist often selected on her visits to the Cape. The Persian kelim is also a favoured recurring feature, see Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 4 June, 2018, lot 53.