Lot Essay
The landscape is thought to depict either the Helderberge, Somerset West, Cape, or the Langeberge near Swellendam.
Winter Wheatfields
Details
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (1886-1957)
Winter Wheatfields
oil on canvas laid down on board
26¾ x 48 3/8in. (68 x 123cm.)
Painted circa 1929-30.
Winter Wheatfields
oil on canvas laid down on board
26¾ x 48 3/8in. (68 x 123cm.)
Painted circa 1929-30.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to one of the contractors involved in Pieerneef's commission to produce thirty-two monumental panels for the concourse of Johannesburg Station in 1930-32.
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