Aspire Auction highlights are the focus of the interview with Senior Art Specialist, Marelize van Zyl, on the Sanlam Arts Round up on Fine Music Radio 101.3fm.
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The consignment of 111 works by 74 artists boasts a selection of highly collectable art historical treasures and Marelize van Zyl pinpoints some of these, which are on view from today 11 March through to Wednesday 16th, the evening of the auction – see details of viewing and sale below.
A magnificent early work by internationally renowned artist Marlene Dumas, KIndervrou is certainly a highlight!
As one of the most celebrated living artists today, Cape Town-born and Amsterdam-based artist, Marlene Dumas, has produced an extraordinary body of work from her earliest paintings in the 1970s through to her internationally celebrated exhibitions of recent years.
Dumas painted Kindvrou in 1974/5, prior to her moving to the Netherlands in 1976. An extraordinary work, it is comparable to Irma Stern’s The Eternal Child (1916) in its painterly treatment and in the intensity of its subject. Interestingly, both artists were aged 22 at the time they produced these arresting works of girl children. Dumas’ unique technique, utilising scumbled painting to achieve smudgy contours, accentuates this liminal phase between childhood and adulthood. (Image above is a detail of Kindvrou}.
For more details about this Cape Town auction see Collectable Treasures from Africa.
Buyers are invited to join for in-room bidding or make use of telephone or Aspire’s real-time online bidding platforms. VisitÂ
WHAT:Â Â Modern and Contemporary Art | Aspire Art Cape Town
WHERE: Aspire Art Cape Town, 37A Somerset Road, De Waterkant, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Exhibition – from Friday 11 March Mon to Wed 18 between 10am and 4pm. | Auction – Wed 16th Mar 2022 19:00
INFO:  T +27 83 283 7427  | E  marelize@aspireart.net | Visit
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