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Eve - A Posthumous Casting
Estimate:
R20,000 - R25,000
Passed
Live Auction
Year-end Auction / Eindjaarveiling
Location
At Bont Huijs: Die Ateljee, Pretoria
Size
260 mm (height) x 500 mm (width)
Description
This is a marble dust casting of the brilliant work that Tienie did of Eve, the fallen woman. His family honoured his legacy by posthumously casting a limited number of their favourite works.
Beautifully mounted on polished granite, this is an exquisite piece to the collection of any art enthusiast.
This is the first of an edition of fifteen.
Condition
Excellent.
Medium
White cement, marble dust, poly resin and granite.
Provenance
New posthumous cast.
Literature
South African artist Tienie Pritchard, one of the most prominent South African sculptors, became internationally renowned for his bronze monumental public commissions. The nine meter high George Harrison in Settler’s Park, Eastgate, Johannesburg is one of the biggest and best-known bronze monuments in the country. The Water Nymphs at the Aventura resort in Bela Bela (Warmbaths) stands six meters tall. The Wall Panel, depicting South Africa’s participation in World War II, in the commemorative museum at Dellville Wood in France, measures an imposing three meters high by ten meters long. His work is represented in private and public collections all over the world. His subject is the human figure, portrayed nude or semi-nude and, although he also sculpts animals, he prefers to incorporate them into his compositions with human figures.
