Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

25 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 721 Maud Sumner SOUTH AFRICAN 1902–1985 A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire) signed ink and watercolour on paper 45 by 60 cm R60 000 – 80 000 PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 7 November 2011, lot 49. Private Collection, Johannesburg. Although the details are sketchy, the house depicted in this scene is Eathorpe Park, the Warwickshire home of Sumner’s father’s family. When Sumner was a student at Oxford in the 1920s, her grandmother and aunts still lived in the house, and Sumner visited and spent vacations there regularly, then and later. The house was eventually sold in the 1950s after the death of the last-surviving aunt. 1 1. Frieda Harmsen (1992) Maud Sumner: Painter and Poet , Pretoria: Van Schaik, page 15. 722 Maud Sumner SOUTH AFRICAN 1902–1985 Landscape with Lake and Hills ink and watercolour on artist’s board 46 by 60 cm R25 000 – 35 000 723 Maud Sumner SOUTH AFRICAN 1902–1985 Bridges over the Thames signed oil on canvas 49 by 98 cm R180 000 – 240 000 721 723 722 Thanks to Gerard de Kamper for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.