17th Jun, 2018 18:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
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Ruth Everard Haden (South Africa 1904-1992)
A French village in the Alps
oil on canvas
Artwork date: circa 1924
Signature details: signed by Leonora Everard Haden and inscribed 'I sign this on behalf of Ruth Everard Haden on 12-7-1985' and 'France +- 1924' on the stretcher
Condition Report
Surface dirt, would benefit from cleaning.
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oil on canvas
Artwork date: circa 1924
Signature details: signed by Leonora Everard Haden and inscribed 'I sign this on behalf of Ruth Everard Haden on 12-7-1985' and 'France +- 1924' on the stretcher
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72 x 52 cm
Notes:
From the summer of 1923 Ruth Everard Haden was in France and, on a holiday with friends from the Slade Art School, began painting directly from the French landscapes and producing works that showed her interest in Cézanne’s formalism. She later enrolled at the Colarossi Art School in the Rue de la Grande Chaumière, a street containing several dynamic and influential art schools and studios. Amongst these was the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where several South Africans had studied under well-known masters such as Antoine Bourdelle, Othon Friesz and André Lhote. It is possible she saw the celebrated Matisse exhibition at Bernheim’s gallery in 1924. ‘Ruth could not sufficiently emphasise how important the exhibitions of the established artists had been for her, and how much she learnt from discussing them with her fellow students’, according to Everard Group biographer, Frieda Harmsen (1980:86). Everard Haden began her studies in 1927 under Lhote, in whose opinion ‘everything of permanent value produced since Impressionism originated in the meditations of the Master
of Aix’ (1983:59). She certainly drew on Cézanne’s simplified forms and modulated colour to create subtle gradations. By eschewing modelling and strong tonal contrasts in favour of broader areas of colour, her painting emphasised a strong pictorial cohesion. Through the use of bold uncompromising forms in a structured composition, she achieved an extraordinary monumentality in A French village in the Alps, a sophistication virtually unparalleled in South African art of the time.
Emma Bedford
Sources:
Harmsen, F. (1980). Women of Bonnefoi. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik, Lhote, A. (1953). Figure Painting. London: Zwemmer quoted in Alexander, L.,Bedford, E. and Cohen, E. (1988). Paris and South African Artists 1850–1965.Cape Town: South African National Gallery.
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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 17th Jun, 2018
In a slow and unresponsive market, amid tight economic conditions generally in South Africa, Aspire Art Auctions made impressive statements and set several world records.
Two rare works by Irma Stern achieved sparkling results. The top lot by value: Still life with magnolias, apples and bowl (1949), fetched R6 828 000, the highest price achieved for a work by Stern for over a year. Another significant still life, Still life with chrysanthemums in the artist’s handmade ceramic jug, from 1950, sold for R3 414 000.
A significant, world record was achieved for Peter Clarke – R1 479 400 for Lazy Day, an acrylic and gouache on paper from 1975, and records were also set for contemporary artists, Zander Blom and Paul Stopforth.
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