Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

210 617 Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 A Watussi Woman with Mountains signed and dated 1946 oil on canvas, in the original Zanzibar frame 65,5 by 48cm excluding frame; 81,5 by 60 by 5cm including frame R9 000 000 - 12 000 000 PROVENANCE Dr R L Worrall. Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, Johannesburg, 22 October 1974, lot 349. Illustrated in colour on page 198. Count Natale Labia. EXHIBITED Argus Gallery, Cape Town, Irma Stern, 6 to 19 March 1947, catalogue number 15. Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Irma Stern: Peintures D’Afrique , 3 October to 2 November 1947, catalogue number 29, illustrated. Poland, Browse & Delbanco, London, Paintings by Irma Stern: South African Artist , January to February, 1948, catalogue number 5. LITERATURE Marion Arnold (1995) Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye , Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press. Illustrated in a black and white photograph of the artist in her studio on page 4. Paul Cullen (ed.) (2003) Irma Stern: Expressions of a Journey , Johannesburg: Standard Bank Gallery. Illustrated in a black and white photograph of the artist in her studio on page 60. Jillian Carman (ed.) (2011) Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Volume One: 1907-1948 , Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Illustrated in a black and white photograph of the artist in her studio on page 144. The present lot exhibited at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Irma Stern: Peintures D’Afrique , 3 October to 2 November 1947 © The National Library of South Africa