The Book, Art and Collectables sale offered art books at highly competitive reserves, as well as fine art and objets d’art.
This special sale was focused on art books and books about art. With over 500 lots on offer, covering everything from rare and collectible ephemera to reference works and artist’s monographs. The book sale was remarkably successful, achieving an 86% sell through rate, well above industry averages.
Lot 295 - Gutsche, Thelma. No Ordinary Woman: The Life and Times of Florence Phillips
Sold for R586
Lot 297 - Harmsen, Frieda. The Way to Easter: Stations of the Cross in South Africa
Estimated at R300 - R400
Lot 299 - Herreman, Frank (ed.). Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
Sold for R821
Lot 303 - Hundt, Stefan. Decade Highlights from 10 Years of Collecting for the Sanlam Art Collection
Sold for R352
Lot 304 - Jansen, Zandberg (curator). Sculpture. SA 1900-1967
Sold for R1,524
Lot 307 - Kilbourn, Frank. 50 Years | 500 Works: The Kilbourn Collection of South African Art
Sold for R7,035
Lot 308 - Kritzinger, Johann. The Youxiantang Collection of Chinese Art
Sold for R234
Lot 311 - Lizamore, Teresa (curator). Art@Work - A Decade and More of the Sasol Art Collection
Estimated at R300 - R500
Lot 313 - Loedolff, Cecile. ABSA Group Corporate Art Collection 1990-1997
Sold for R352
Lot 317 - Mandela, Nelson (ed). Paris Vogue The South Africa edition Dec/Jan 1993-1994
Estimated at R400 - R600
Lot 320 - Masekela, Barbara. Art Against Apartheid: 78 Artist's from the 80's
Sold for R1,172
Lot 322 - Meintjes, Julia. Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank Kunsversameling
Sold for R1,993
Lot 323 - Miles, Elza. Polly Street - The Story of an Art Centre
Sold for R352
Lot 324 - Mosaka, Tumelo (curator). A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa
Sold for R176
Lot 325 - Njami, Simon (curator). Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent
Sold for R938
Lot 326 - Ogilvie, Grania. The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors
Sold for R1,876
Lot 329 - Rosenthal, Norman (curator). Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
Sold for R117
Lot 331 - Savage, Polly (ed). Making Art in Africa 1960-2010
Sold for R1,055
Lot 332 - Schadeberg, Jurgen (ed). The Fifties People of South Africa
Sold for R704
Lot 336 - Scott, Fred. Art for Limpopo 2008 - Modern and Contemporary Art: Then, Now and Beyond
Sold for R352
Lot 337 - Siebrits, Warren. Aspects of South African Art II 1910-2010
Sold for R821
Lot 338 - Siebrits, Warren. Full set of 30 exhibition catalogues: 2002-2009
Sold for R4,456
Lot 340 - Siebrits, Warren. States of Emergence: South Africa 1960-1990
Sold for R352