Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

200 607 Maud Sumner SOUTH AFRICAN 1902-1985 Still Life with Roses, Books and a Photograph 1946 oil on canvas 64 by 53cm R70 000 - 100 000 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.