Highlights - Live Virtual Auction, Monday 11 May 2020

12 597 Walter Battiss SOUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe signed, inscribed with the title in part on a Michael Stevenson Gallery label on the reverse oil on canvas 41 by 50,5cm R500 000 - 700 000 PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist by Linda Givon, Goodman Gallery. Private Collection. Linda Givon, Goodman Gallery, circa 1980. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, circa 2004. Property of Kangra Group (Pty) Ltd Assembled by the Late Graham and Rhona Beck, 2005. 579 EdwardWolfe SOUTH AFRICAN 1897-1982 Group of Women Beneath a Tree, Taxco, Mexico signed oil on canvas 70 by 78cm R80 000 - 120 000 PROVENANCE Stephen Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby’s, Johannesburg, 6 November 1984, lot 129. Private Collection. LITERATURE Stephan Welz (1989) Art at Auction in South Africa: Twenty Years of Sotheby’s/ Stephan Welz & Co 1969-1989 , Johannesburg: AD. Donker, illustrated in colour on page 170.