Modern & Contemporary African Art
Modern & Contemporary African Art
Portrait of the Artist as a Visionary
Auction Closed
March 21, 03:48 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexis Preller
South African
1911-1975
Portrait of the Artist as a Visionary
signed and dated 1972 (lower centre)
oil on canvas
123 by 153cm., 48⅜ by 60¼in.
framed: 131.5 by 162cm., 51¾ by 63¾in.
Collection of the artist
Volks Art Auctioneers, Pretoria, The Alexis Preller and Guna Massyn Collections, 18 November 1977, lot 91
Private collection, Cape Town
Stephan Welz in association with Sotheby's Johannesburg, 30 November 1987, lot 421 titled 'Man and Bird' (illustrated on the front cover)
Private collection, United Kingdom
S. Welz, Art at Auction in South Africa: Twenty Years of Sotheby's/Stephan Welz & Co, 1969 - 1989 (Johannesburg, 1989), titled 'Man and Bird', illustrated p. 184
Pretoria, Pretoria Art Museum, Alexis Preller Retrospective, cat. no. 193, titled 'Portrait of the Artist as a Visionary', illustrated
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