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 343 - Siebrits, Warren. Art and Urbanisation: South Africa 1940-1971
Sold for R1,524
Lot 344 - Seippel, Ralf (ed). South African Photography 1950-2010
Sold for R234
Lot 346 - Simons, Phillida Brooke. Meerlust: 300 Hundred Years of Hospitality
Sold for R176
Lot 350 - Stevenson, Michael. South African Paintings 1780-1980
Sold for R938
Lot 351 - Teeuwisse, Jan (ed). The Rainbow Nation - Contemporary South African Sculpture
Sold for R586
Lot 352 - Townsend, Lesley and Stephen. Bokaap...Faces and Facades
Sold for R821
Lot 353 - Tyrrell, Barbara and Jurgens, Peter. African Heritage
Sold for R1,290
Lot 355 - Van Niekerk, Raymund (curator). Cape Town Biennial 1979
Sold for R1,642
Lot 356 - Vladislavic, Ivan and Judin, Hilton. Blank_ Architecture, apartheid and after
Sold for R1,759
Lot 359 - Werth, Albert. Looking at our Own: Africa in the Art of South Africa
Sold for R176
Lot 360 - Werth, Albert. Pretoria Painters and Sculptors 1963-1993
Sold for R1,407
Lot 363 - Baki, Péter. Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century
Sold for R234
Lot 366 - Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set
Sold for R1,876
Lot 370 - Mapplethorpe, Robert. Mapplethorpe The Complete Flowers
Sold for R704
Lot 384 - Picton, John. El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa
Sold for R2,580
Lot 389 - Gordimer, Nadine. Kurt Jobst: goldsmith and Silversmith Art Metal Worker
Sold for R586