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

175 561 Maggie Laubser SOUTH AFRICAN 1886-1973 Birds on Water signed and dated ‘53 in pencil gouache on paper laid down on card 33,5 by 45,5cm R250 000 - 350 000 PROVENANCE Acquired from the artist by the current owner’s mother and thence by descent. LITERATURE Dalene Marais (1994) Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics . Johannesburg and Cape Town: Perskor, illustrated on page 355, catalogue number 1562. For an article in Trek magazine, artist May Hillhouse wrote of Laubser: “In her portrayal of the South African countryside, Maggie Laubser has drawn upon a deep human understanding to recreate for us her paintings of the ducks, the geese, the peasants surrounding her. It is the essence of the material thing that she offers us, a deep sense of the inner reality which transcends natural appearance. There is a stressing of essential form in the subjects chosen rather than the accidental differences of one being and thing from another. The paintings of ducks and geese are in a sense all ducks and geese … It is in this regard that Maggie Laubser shows creative and visual force … there is a union of the artist with her motif, harmonising the expression into a concrete unity of subject and feeling.” 1 1. Muller Ballot (2016) Maggie Laubser: A Window on Always Light . Stellenbosch: Sun Press, page 232.