Strauss & Co is proud to announce details of a single-artist sale of the highly important artist Irma Stern, to be held at Welgemeend Manor House in Cape Town on Wednesday, 8 June 2022. Titled Irma Stern: Time | Line, this boutique sale of 140 works from the Irma Stern Trust Collection and other private properties will feature rare paintings, drawings, prints, books, and a stoneware piece that collectively span the entirety of Stern’s prolific and distinguished career.
The bulk of the works in Irma Stern: Time | Line are derived from the Irma Stern Trust Collection. To commemorate 56 years since the inception of the Irma Stern Trust, Nedgroup Trust (Pty) Ltd, Trustees of the Irma Stern Trust, have released 124 artworks from its Collection, many of which have never been exhibited before. The benefit of this sale will be to strengthen the Collection for the future by preserving the Collection and making it accessible by developing the existing Irma Stern Trust website into an important research resource. In doing so, the trustees bring Irma Stern’s aim of promoting fine arts within and outside South Africa to fruition, as is stipulated in the artist’s final will and testament.
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Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Wood Carriers signed and dated 1960 ballpoint pen and gouache on sketchbook paper sheet size: 28 by 24cm R 150 000 – 200 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Portrait of a Girl signed and dated 1953 oil on board 60 by 39,5cm R 500 000 – 700 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Seated Zanzibar Woman signed and dated 1942 gouache on paper on a raffia mount 38 by 27,5cm R 200 000 – 300 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Psychic: An Old Malay Woman signed and dated 1941 oil on canvas 68 by 68cm R 7 000 000 – 9 000 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Woman in Black Dress signed and dated 1936 oil on canvas 56,5 by 51cm R 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Portrait of a Woman in a Sari: Roza signed and dated 1929 oil on canvas 76 by 68cm R 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
Irma Stern SOUTH AFRICAN 1894-1966 Vase in Female Form signed and dated 1951 underneath glazed and incised terracotta height: 28,5cm; width: 12cm; depth: 10cm R 40 000 – 60 000