Irma Stern (South African, 1894-1966) Gathering Firewood
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Notes : Provenance:Louis Schachat, Die Kunskamer, Cape Town;A private collection.The above work belongs to a series of works from the early 1960s in which Stern was preoccupied with pictorial themes relating to the workers on land and sea. Stern herself described them as containing: “field workers, grape harvesters and fishermen – people who occupy themselves with everlasting things, timeless”.Literature:M. Arnold, Irma Stern: A feast for the eye (Cape Town, 1995) pg.123.
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