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

164 548 Maggie Laubser SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Portrait of Mena signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘24 oil on board 47 by 35,5cm R250 000 - 300 000 PROVENANCE Sotheby Parke Bernet, Johannesburg, October 1974, catalogue number 156. EXHIBITED South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Maggie Laubser Retrospective , 1969. LITERATURE Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics , Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor, illustrated on page 186, catalogue number 535, where the title Portrait of a Woman with Head Scarf is given. 549 Maggie Laubser SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Still Life with an Orange, a Lemon, Pot and Tray signed; inscribed with the artist’s name and title on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse oil on cardboard 33,5 by 40,5cm R180 000 - 240 000 PROVENANCE Purchased at Maggie Laubser’s Stellenbosch exhibition in 1930 by Mrs A E Malherbe, Stellenbosch. EXHIBITED Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings, Stellenbosch , Maggie Laubser , October 1930. South African Association of Arts Gallery, Cape Town, Works by Maggie Laubser , 26 April to 8 May 1965, catalogue number 45.