Strauss & co - 2017 Review

Peter Clarke The Fence Sold R909 440, 6 March 2017 © The Estate of Peter Clarke | DALRO Clarke’s works from the 1960s have emerged as the most valuable at auction. The Fence (1960), a typically graphic work dominated by a corrugated-iron fence, sold for R909 440. Bidders also chased after Clarke’s gouache on paper, Birds in Flight (1960), which sold for R568 400; Day Dreaming (1967), a pensive marine landscape, sold for R431 984. 45