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

220 606 Cecil Skotnes SOUTH AFRICAN 1926-2009 Figures at the Coast signed and dated 04 oil on panel 117 by 120cm R350 000 - 500 000 PROVENANCE Property of Kangra Group (Pty) Ltd. Assembled by the Late Graham and Rhona Beck. 607 Alexis Preller SOUTH AFRICAN 1911-1975 The Ship signed and dated ‘65 oil on canvas 60 by 75,5cm R1 800 000 - 2 000 000 In the catalogue to the 1972 Alexis Preller retrospective exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum, Esmé Berman writes of the process of “repetition, adaptation, variation and transformation that characterises the artist’s work”. 1 He reuses and reinvents familiar objects throughout his career – eggs, candles, mangoes, egrets, fish and less commonly, sailing vessels. The boats are at times fully