Irma Stern - Arab Youth
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- This image is from the 1982 posthumous portfolio printed The Graphic Guild in an edition of 250
- This print can also be found in the permanent collection of the University of Cape Town (theirs is 171/250)
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Notes : Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneka, South Africa. In 1913 Stern moved to Germany to study art at the Weimer Academy and the Levin-Funcke Studio. From 1917 she studied with Max Pechstein as part of the Novembergruppe and became associated with the German Expressionist movement. She held her first exhibition in 1919, in Berlin. In 1920 Stern returned to Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout her life Stern travelled extensively, especially across Africa, and published two illustrated journals, Congo (1943) and Zanzibar (1948). With nearly one hundred solo exhibitions during her lifetime, throughout South Africa and Europe, Stern is considered one of South Africa's most important artists. In 2005 one of her paintings sold at a London auction for nearly $5 million USD. Irma Stern died in 1966, in Cape Town.
Condition_report : Excellent condition
