Art at Auction in South Africa : Twenty Years of Sotheby’s/Stephan Welz & Co 1969-1989 – Stephan Welz

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Tight Clean copy. No inscriptions. Dust Wrapper very good, overall a very good copy. First Edition 1989950 First Edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean and tight. Africana. Hardback

This book records the vents of twenty successful years of Sotheby’s ?Stephan Welt and co. in South Africa. The major part of this book is taken up by more than 300 colour plates of exceptional arts works, most of them by South Africa artists and sculptors, as well as furniture porcelain, silver copper and postage stamps with a Cape of other Southern African flavour. The selected illustrations allow for interesting comparison in of the work of South African artists in their approach to and treatment of similar subjects painted contemporaneously from earliest recorded view of the Cape up to contemporary art. Anecdotes of memorable auctions and details of some remarkable “finds”