Modern & Contemporary African Art

Modern & Contemporary African Art

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Alexis Preller

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