The 28 May sale is led by Irma Stern’s paradisiacal 1930 portrait of a seated young woman, Cape Girl with Fruit (estimate on request). After the record-breaking R22 million sale of Irma Stern’s ...
An unusually popular primatologist, he drew the attention of Newt Gingrich, Isabella Rossellini, the philosopher Peter Singer and the reading public. By Alex Traub Frans de Waal, who used his study of ...
Although Frans Hals’ Malle Babbe was always considered a tronie or a fictional character study, the portrait is based on a woman whom the Dutch Golden Age pioneer crossed paths with in real life.