| The Poet | |
| Alexis Preller (South African, 1911 - 1975) | |
| 237 | |
ZAR 800,000 -
ZAR 1,200,000 | |
| Oil on canvas | |
| Paintings | |
| 71.5 cm - 61 cm (28.15 in - 24.02 in) | |
| 65 | |
| Signed / Inscribed | |
| Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection - Evening Sale, Live Virtual | |
| Nov 21, 2022 | |
| Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, Johannesburg, 17 March 1967, lot 176 Professor Dr Ernst van Heerden, Pretoria. Dr Matthys Johannes Strydom Family Collection. | |
| Pretoria Art Museum (1972) Alexis Preller: Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Pretoria Art Museum, illustrated in black and white, illustrated in black and white with the title 'The Poet', cat. no. 123, unpaginated. Esmé Berman and Karel Nel (2009) Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows, Johannesburg: Shelf Publishing, referred in the text on page 284 as 'The Prophet' and again on page 371 as 'The Poet'. Matthys Strydom (2021) Nog Stories Teen My Muur, George: LW Hiemstra Trust, illustrated in colour on page 100, with the title The Prophet. | |
| Johannesburg City Hall, A Century of South African Art, July 1969, cat no. 51. Pretoria Art Museum, Prestige Retrospective Exhibition, 24 October to 26 November 1972, cat no. 123. | |
| Paintings |