Strauss & co - 2015 Mid-year Review

In similar vein, Strauss & Co has auctioned a selection of relatively spontaneously worked and impressionistically realised Pierneef landscape studies and cloudscapes. Less techtonic and structured in their construction, the sketch paintings are remarkable for a mobile quality in the space and the virtual movement of air that the artist achieves through the responsive rhythms of his brush. While, as is the case with the Stern landscapes, traversing zones of insight more or less remote from those ordinarily associated with the artist – in Pierneef’s case the transcendent form of things, in Stern’s, a brooding exoticism – they manifest a quality that can only be described as sensory discovery, an essentially visceral effect less available in more deliberated kinds of art making. JH Pierneef Storm Clouds and Trees Sold R704 816, 16 March 2015 Wild Pear Trees Sold R2 046 240, 16 March 2015 Die Wolk, Naby Winburg, O.V.S. Sold R1 079 960, 1 June 2015 14