Alfred Neville Lewis; South African 1895-1972; Pnina Salzman and the Cape Town Orchestra
Provenance : Acquired from the artist's widow, Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth and thence by descent.
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Literature : Lucy Alexander and Evelyn Cohen (1990) 150 South African Paintings, Cape Town, Struikhof Publishers, the large-scale painting is illustrated in colour on page 71, plate 47.
Notes : The present lot is a small-scale study of a larger work of the same title, illustrated in Alexander & Cohen (1990). It depicts the young Israeli classical pianist Pnina Salzman (1922-2008) performing with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra in 1948.
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