A peak-period Stern painting of Watussi Woman with Mountains in a Rwandan landscape was the top lot, selling for R10.25m. Pierneef’s Gold & Green, Rooiplaat, NT, a neo-impressionist rarity for the artist, surprisingly fetched R2.7m, four times more than its pre-sale estimate.
Pierneef’s more characteristic study of interlaced camelthorn trees in a landscape near Thabazimbi also fetched R2.7m.