Strauss & co - 11 November 2019, Johannesburg

89 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS AND PARIS The Everard Group included sisters Edith King (see Lot 78) and Bertha Everard, Bertha’s daughters Ruth and Rosamund, and later Ruth’s daughter Leonora and Leonora’s daughter Nicky. Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp, the youngest of the original members, spent time in the 1920s in London and Paris where she entered the Conservatoire to study music. The original group’s work has similarities with that of the Bloomsbury Group, who were working at the same time, particularly the work of Rosamund, who designed and painted the frame for her painting Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri. 71 Rosamund Everard- Steenkamp SOUTH AFRICAN 1907–1946 Still Life with Erythrina Zeyheri signed; inscribed with ‘Still Life with Coral Tree’on a Pretoria Art Museum label on the reverse oil on canvas 91,5 by 59 cm excluding frame; 105 by 73 cm by 4 cm including the artist’s painted frame R350 000 – 500 000 PROVENANCE The collection of Ruth Everard Haden. Private Collection, Johannesburg. EXHIBITED Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Retrospective Exhibition of the Everard Group, 1967. LITERATURE Frieda Harmsen (1980) The Women of Bonnefoi: The Story of the Everard Group , Pretoria: Van Schaik. Illustrated on page 159 as plate 184. Alan Crump (2000) The Everard Phenomenon: An Exhibition of Paintings by the Everard Family, Johannesburg : The Standard Bank Gallery. Illustrated on page 119, catalogue number 49. ITEM NOTES The artist studied music from 1925 to 1926 at the Paris Conservatoire.