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75 242 Alexis Preller SOUTH AFRICAN 1911–1975 The Gates signed and dated ‘68; inscribed with the title on the reverse mixed media on canvas laid down on wood panel 32 by 25,5 cm R300 000 – 500 000 EXHIBITED Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Katzen Collection, April 1968. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Alexis Preller Retrospective , 24 October to 26 November 1972. 243 Alexis Preller SOUTH AFRICAN 1911–1975 Abstract Composition in Gold signed and dated 63 mixed media and gold leaf on canvas 35 by 30 cm R200 000 – 300 000 LITERATURE Pretoria Art Museum (1972) Alexis Preller Retrospective , exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: PAM, illustrated in colour on page 5, catalogue no 73. Esmé Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa , Cape Town: AA Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 10. Esmé Berman and Karel Nel (2009) Collected Images (vol. 2), Johannesburg: Shelf Publishing, a work from the same series, belonging to Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, is illustrated in colour on pages 183 and 218.