Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

161 542 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1957 The Arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape signed and dated 1933 watercolour and charcoal heightened with gouache 68 by 90cm R200 000 - 300 000 543 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1957 Extensive Mountain Landscape with Pine Trees signed and dated London 1934 charcoal on paper laid down on card 150 by 60cm R300 000 - 500 000 PROVENANCE Stephan Welz and Co in Association with Sotheby’s, The IGI Collection of Paintings, Prints and Sculpture , Johannesburg, 15 February 1994, lot 26. Private Collection. LITERATURE Stephan Welz (1996) Art at Auction in South Africa: The Art Market Review 1969 to 1995 , Johannesburg: Art Link, illustrated on page 179. In 1933 Pierneef was commissioned to paint murals for South Africa House, London. He spent two years in London, returning to South Africa in 1935.