Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

179 391 Eleanor Esmonde-White SOUTH AFRICAN 1914-2007 Olive Pickers, Corfu signed oil on canvas 57,5 by 86cm R200 000 - 300 000 PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 12 October 2015, lot 505. Tasso Foundation Collection. ‘Living in Corfu I am even more driven to paint women, because they are the backbone of Greek society. They are splendid, splendid people. The men sit around all day in the cafes drinking coffee and ouzo and it is the women who do all the work. They are the ones who work in the fields, you see them trudging home leading heavily laden donkeys. They work very very hard and I have recorded them.’ 1 1. Leanne Raymond (2015) Eleanor Esmonde- White , Paarl: Main Street Publishing, page 132. 390 Eleanor Esmonde-White SOUTH AFRICAN 1914-2007 Washing Day in Greece signed oil on artist’s board 29 by 39cm R150 000 - 200 000 PROVENANCE Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, 17 October 2007, lot 486. Tasso Foundation Collection. THE TASSO FOUNDATION COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT SOUTH AFRICAN ART ASSEMBLED BY THE LATE GIULIO BERTRAND OF MORGENSTER