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ALEXIS PRELLER A star feature of Strauss & Co’s upcoming Johannesburg sale www.straussart.co.za
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our impressive works by Alexis Preller, including an imaginative 1950 selfportrait, are among the outstanding works on offer at Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live sale in Johannesburg, due to be held at the Wanderers Club on 4 June 2018.
Highlights of the sale include, along with Preller, contributions by Walter Battiss, William Kentridge, JH Pierneef and Vladimir Tretchikoff. Two works by Pierneef a top earner at auction and South Africa’s foremost landscape painter, will be on offer, most notably a Lowveld landscape portraying Shingwedzi in the northern part of the Kruger National Park, estimated to fetch between R1.5–R2.5 million. Great excitement surrounds Preller’s undated intaglio painting titled Poseidon. This depiction of the mythical Greek god of the sea has been held in the same private collection for decades and carries a competitive pre-sale estimate of between R3–R5 million. Charting a wholly different direction in painting, but no less sought after at auction, is Tretchikoff, whose portrait of a traditional healer holding a green snake is expected to sell for between R2–R3 million.
Erik Laubscher, Still Life with Bowl and Vessel R 250 000 - 350 000 Alexis Preller, Contrapuntal Figures II, R 2 000 000 - 3 000 000 74
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