Hello, NOTE: Due to technical issues with our Internet Service Provider this announcement is rather late. Note that this auction closes Thursday 25th - this week, in a few days only.
We list 7 africana lots, including original works of art, on this auction starting Thursday 18th June 2020. Details of the auction are to be found at: http://www.antiquarianauctions.com Visit this site for fuller descriptions and images. You need to register to take part in the auction and antiquarianauctions.com will be pleased to assist you with the bidding process - which is actually simplicity in itself. If you can log in, you can bid. Registration is easy and the site does not ask for too many personal details. This is their auction #83. It is now open for bidding and closes on Thursday 25th June at 16.30 GMT (that being 6.30 pm local time here in SA). We have the following 7 lots on offer: We especially note the first item by George Pemba. Similar sketches were sold on auction in Johannesburg in April at a major premium over the amount asked here. -------------------------------------- Lot 403 #27604 George Milwa Pemba. MRS ARIAH BOOKHOLANE Pen and ink sketch on paper of Mrs Ariah Bookholane of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Signed M. Pemba 1989. Excellent provenance. The present owner was a friend of George Pemba and the sketch was commissioned and purchased by him as a companion-piece from an existing formal portrait by the artist. Lot 404 #27608 Kevin Waite. PIRELLI / FANGIO print. Signed by Fangio. A limited-edition montage print, produced for Pirelli, depicting five-time world motor racing champion Juan Manuel Fangio and individually signed by him for the artist. Depicts Fangio with the Mercedes-Benz W196, the Ferrari 166, and the Alfa Romeo 158. Excellent provenance. Originally purchased by the present owner on the occasion of Fangio's visit to South Africa in 1992. These prints were sold by the artist for AU$500. The full run of prints were signed for the artist by Fangio at one time, there were no unsigned copies. Lot 405 #27606 Dave Adnams. 1937 FORD V8 Airbrushed artwork. Signed Dave Adnams ‘97. his image graced the front cover of the July 1998 issue of Classic Car Africa (Volume 3 No 4) and was featured prominently on the artist’s website for many years. He certainly regarded this as his masterpiece. Excellent provenance being purchased by the present owner from the artist. A stylish trendsetter, this model is regarded as a classic of the line. British-born airbrush artist Dave Adnams arrived in South Africa as a 16-year-old in January 1948 and was immediately struck by the colourful array of post-war exotic American cars that he saw in Cape Town: Buicks, De Sotos, Nashes, Oldsmobiles, Packards, Pontiacs and Studebakers. They were in sharp contrast to the drab cars he'd grown used to in "the bleak austerity of post-war Britain", he told Madden Cole of Classic Car Africa magazine in 1998. The experience simply added to his fascination and passion for the motor car, especially the American automobile. Once settled in Johannesburg, Dave began attending motor racing events at such circuits as Grand Central, Palmietfontein, and later Kyalami, using the racing cars he saw as models for his illustrations. He developed his love for cars and motor racing during his career as an illustrator for an advertising agency in Johannesburg, later branching out to work independently as an artist from his studio in Blairgowrie. Lot 406 #27607 Leon Hoffman. JIM CLARKE IN LOTUS 25 CLIMAX Oil on artists board. The painting depicts world champion racing driver Jim Clark in the winning Lotus 25 Climax at the South African Grand Prix at East London in December 1963. Excellent provenance being purchased by the present owner from the artist. Vereeniging-based automotive artist Leon Hoffman has had a lifelong long affair with the motor car and motor sport in all its forms. He has an enviable record as a cutaway artist and an illustrator of general motoring art. He has specialised in the illustration of personal cars for owners and major corporates on commission, anything from humble Austins to majestic Rolls-Royces and muscular AC Cobras. Leon is a member of several vintage and classic car clubs in Johannesburg and is a dyed-in-the-wool follower of motor sport and motor racing history, often to be found studying competition cars at his home circuit Midvaal as well as at Kyalami and Zwartkops. Among the interesting cars he has owned is a rare 1936 Marendaz Special. His work appeared from time to time in Classic Car Africa and Fine Cars magazines. Lot 407 #27605 F.E. Wookey. SIEGE OF KIMBERLEY Diary of F.E. Wookey, The Hospital, Kimberley. Author's diary. The diary of a young nurse, F.E. Wookey, (related to the missionary Rev. A.J. Wookey of the London Missionary Society) from 13th October 1899 to 16th February 1900. This details her experiences in the hospital attending to the casualties, and highlights the townspeople’s frustration over the delay of Lord Methuen’s relief force. The dire shortage of food, the arrival of the Boer’s big gun, civilian gossip and rumours are all covered in this interesting narrative. Lot 417 #26291 F.E.G. Nilant. DIE HOUT- EN LINOSNEE VAN J.H. PIERNEEF A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974 Standard work on Pierneef. "Pierneef painted Africa. His landscapes were different from anything seen in paint before. Baines, Oerder and others had painted the same scenes, but Pierneef saw them with new eyes. He created an original style out of this new subject matter". (Dr. Anton Hendriks). Lot 418 #25964 Barbara Lindop (Ed. Mona de Beer). GERARD SEKOTO Dictum, Randburg, 1988 An extensive collection of his work from around 1938 to the 1980s. Gerard Sekoto (1913-1993) lived in exile in France for more than 40 years and contributed a 21pp autobiographical outline to this book. Definitive resource to artist's oeuvre. (NOT the later slim 64pp publication by Pavilion of the same name and with the same cover picture). -------------------------------------- Any additional information, images, assistance, as required in connection with the above items and the bidding process can be provided on request - including p&p estimates for overseas clients. IMPORTANT: The items are on the auction and no pre-auction offers will be considered. Items will, if unsold, revert to our previous listed price and no post-auction offers will be considered. If you wish to purchase an item at auction-level prices, please bid for it. The auction allows 'proxy bids' whereby it judiciously spends up to your maximum bid to stay just ahead of the other bidders - only as long as they do not have a proxy bid in excess of yours. If you are the only bidder then it will not exceed the reserve price until another bidder enters a higher bid. 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