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Lot 510
Stanley Pinker (South African 1924-2012) PASTEL STILL LIFE WITH LEMONS signed oil on board 38,5 by 34,5cm Known as a prolific, witty painter with a keen eye for composing theatrical scenes, the late Stanley Pinker has excited the interest of major collectors and institutions around the world. After travelling extensively in Europe, the artist finally settled in South Africa, claiming that he realised that “everything [he] want[s] is here.â€1 His artistic sensibility has inspired many of the young artists he has mentored, including internationally renowned painter, Marlene Dumas. Although Pinker has painted many still lifes, this rather unique work falls outside of the artist’s usual colour palette, boasting unobtrusive pastel shades of purples, greens, blues and yellows. Pinker’s work was often inspired by the 20th Century European art movements of Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism2. In this work, the artist makes use of multiple planes of perspective, which split the image and compartmentalise it into overlapping squares. The softer colours provide a calming effect on the viewer and tie the composition together, counteracting the cubist-inspired perspective. The painting is highly reminiscent of Pablo Picasso’s cubist still lifes, featuring the patterned wallpaper in the background and relatively organic shapes, which just border abstraction. Esmé Berman, South African art historian, noted that the artist, “attempt[ed] to create a new psychological dimension within his canvases by distorting space and recomposing elements of observable reality within this new environment.â€31 Michael Stevenson, Stanley Pinker (Cape Town: Michael Stevenson), 17. 2 Michael Stevenson, Stanley Pinker (Cape Town: Michael Stevenson), 7 – 9. 3 IOL, “Pinker toucher more than a paint brush.â€- LD
Lot 374
DAVID MYNETT "Spoleto" view of a street scene through an arch, mixed media, titled lower left and signed lower right, together with four further watercolour and pastel works by the same hand one with a further painting verso of "Man Seated on a Garden Chair" CONDITION REPORTS Spoleto 46.5cm (l) x 38.5cm (w)
Lot 2008
A Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan with plain monture, the double paper leaf painted in the Chinoiserie style with a figure in loose jacket and trousers, pastel colours, approaching a stylised tree with blossoms, a large rock behind him. The leaf is découpé, with very small scaled and varied designs, along the top border and vertically over the majority of the leaf. Guard length 11.25 inches or 28.5cm. A crisp, clean fan, one tiny hole to the decoupage just below the man's foot.
Lot 2025
A Slender 18th Century Ivory Fan, circa 1770's, the monture carved and pierced and painted, the gorge with attractive flowers and insects in pastel colours, highlighted in gold. The double paper leaf depicting a rather bacchanalian image of nymphs and cherubs in a woodland clearing, having seemingly been grape harvesting. The verso is painted with lovers beneath an arbour. Contained in a grey fan box. Guard length 10.75 inches or 27 cm Provenance: The sale of collections of Dame Joan Sutherland, O.M, and Richard Bonynge C.B.E (Dame Joan's husband, a conductor) at Sotheby's, February 9th 1995, lot 6, illustrated in the catalogue. In generally good order. The box lid is deformed and does not sit well.
Lot 2061
A Fine and Large Ostrich Feather Fan, circa 1900, in muted pastel shades of pink/mauve and blue, mounted on white mother-of-pearl, the guard tips shaped, the sticks slivered and gilded. Overall height at centre 25 inches or 63.5cm, span approx. 44.5 inches or 113cm Purchased at Phillips on the 30th November 1993, part lot 405, Together with a court headdress, for £50.00 (2). Good, clean frothy feathers.
Lot 2176
A Rare French Fan, circa 1890's, the ivory monture shaped like a dagger or sword hilt. The head, intricately carved and shaped and set with an opaque stone, the gorge and lower guards shaped only at the shoulder, but the upper part of the guards carved to catch the eye with a bulbous section carved in layers, more detail to tip and junction, with a column-like and elegant section culminating in a pipe-playing cherub carved in relief, atop a pedestal. A closer look at this shape shows that the fan is made to emulate a dagger, with the bulbous part the handle. The lower guard matches, save for the cherub playing a different instrument. The silk leaf, mounted à l'anglaise, is painted in pastel colours with an amusing scene of ''Marionettes de l'Amour'', a puppet theatre with three puppets on the ''stage'', plus a white cat perched on a red velvet cushion. The ''audience'' consists of six rather chubby winged cherubs, one having sneaked under the curtain of the theatre, one pointing at a puppet as if a teacher pointing at a blackboard, the others taking it all in, one to the left with his tongue protruding. Signed, under the cherubs to the left, Aman Cyboulle, a French artist who exhibited at The Salon 1868-1880. The recto is completed with a simple border to the edges and some details in the corners. The verso is plain save for some detail to the corners and simple flower sprays. Contained in a card fan box covered in cerise silk and inscribed in gold for Duvelleroy Regent Street W. Guard length 11 inches or 28cm See a similar fan, painted by a different artist but with the same monture, sold in the ''Earth to Fire'' sale at Sotheby's London in May 1st 2018, lot 307. Estimated at £600 to £700 it achieved £1500.00 hammer.. It is somewhat of a miracle that the carving that protrudes on the guards in undamaged. The fan is generally clean and in good order.
Lot 2177
A 19th Century Chinese Feather Fan, the feathers dyed an unusual shade of powder blue, and painted in silver and pastel colours. Centrally, a domestic scene with two people in detailed robes next to a table decorated with a fine blue vase filled with exotic flowers. To the reserves, bright splashes of deep blue for large blooms, complementing other flowers in pink and yellow. The verso repeats the floral theme with painting to each feather. Unusually for this style of fan, the monture is lacquered in black, and gilded, the guards with meandering flowers, the gorge with a delicate pattern resembling feathers. Guard length 9.5 inches or 24cm with the feather tips adding another 1.5 inches or 3.5cm. the monture is sound. The feathers are a little tatty, nibbled, mainly to the outer edges.
Lot 2186
A Late 19th Century Carved Ivory Fan, Qing Dynasty, the guards very deeply carved, the gorge quite shallow in contrast. The double cream silk leaf is embroidered both sides in pastel colours, both with dragons, one with five claws the other with four. The five claw dragon symbol could only be worn by the Emperor and was thus an indication of power. The fan is contained in a fitted black lacquer fan box, decorated in gold with figures to the outer lid. The interior of the lid is padded and lined with silk, then painted in bright colours with exotic long-tailed birds, flowers and foliage. Finished with a cream silk tassel. Guard length 11.75 inches or 30cm. the leaf has been off the monture at some point as it is stands slightly proud. The lower edge has some slight damage. The upper guard has been repaired at some point but this repair has not held.
Lot 10
Paul Emile Pissarro, French (1884 - 1972) Pastel on Paper, Old Path Near Village, Signed Lower Right. Tag signed to frame. Measures 9" H x 11-1/2" W, frame measures 29-1/2" H X 33-1/2" W. Condition: Typical fraying to the edges of the sheet otherwise good condition Estimate: $2200.00 - $3200.00 Domestic Shipping: Third party
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