Highlights - Live Virtual Auction, Monday 11 May 2020

8 568 Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Zanzibar Arab signed and dated 1939; inscribed with the artist’s name on a Pretoria Art Museum exhibition label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 67 by 64,5cm R10 000 000 - 12 000 000 PROVENANCE The Ivan Katzen Collection. Curries Auctioneers, Johannesburg, The “Ivan Katzen Collection” of Pretoria; Important Works by Leading South African Artists as well as by Picasso and Clavé , 17 November 1971, lot 35. Private Collection. EXHIBITED Martin Melck House, Cape Town, Irma Stern: Exhibition of Paintings fromZanzibar , 12 to 26 February 1940, catalogue number 9. Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg, Irma Stern: Exhibition of Paintings fromZanzibar , 3 to 10 December 1940, catalogue number 7. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, The Ivan Katzen Collection , April 1968, catalogue number 38. Curries Auctioneers, The Duncan Hall, Main City Hall Block, Johannesburg, 15 to 17 November 1971, catalogue number 35, with the title Zanzibar Arab . LITERATURE A.J. Werth (1968) The Ivan Katzen Collection , Pretoria Art Museum, illustrated, catalogue number 38. Marion Arnold (1995) A Feast for the Eye , Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, illustrated in colour on page 117.