Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

18 T O P L A C E A B I D C L I C K O N T H E R E D L O T N U M B E R The present lot was donated by the artist and the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) has been the backbone of all classical music in Cape Town since its formation in 1914, the cultural jewel in the city’s crown and a socio-economic asset. However, to ensure that the orchestra remains world-class and enable it to continue its activities, it needs financial support. The CPO offers a future for its young musicians, most of whom come from disadvantaged communities and whose lives have now been transformed. For careers to be 708 Christo Coetzee SOUTH AFRICAN 1929–2000 Head signed oil and mixed media on paper 58 by 49 cm R25 000 – 35 000 LITERATURE Elza Miles (ed) (1986) Stet Tydskrif, Johannesburg: Taurus, illustrated on the front cover of the magazine. 707 Marlene von Dürckheim SOUTH AFRICAN 1945– Composition with Violin, Glass and Bottle signed and dated 2020; signed, dated and inscribed with the title on the reverse oil on Belgian linen 65 by 55 by 2,5 cm R20 000 – 30 000 created for the hundreds of talented young musicians in the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s education and development projects, the CPO needs to be sustainable and secure. Farsighted people such as Marlene van Dürckheim value the CPO. They support the CPO not only as a symphony orchestra but as a multi-functional orchestra which performs a variety of concerts including crossover, pop, jazz and rock, as well as community and school concerts along with accompanying opera, ballet and musicals, and its vast educational programs from grassroots to full youth orchestras.