Irma Stern is one of South Africa’s best-known artists and one of a few South African painters whose reputation extends beyond the African continent. Born in 1894 and raised in Transvaal, she studied art in Germany, first at the Weimar Academy in 1913, and later briefly at the famed Bauhaus. She became closely associated with the most recent developments in contemporary German art and became a ful…

Provenance

Acquired from the artist, private collection, South Africa; Thence by descent, private collection, Queensland; Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers, 31 March 2022, lot 23; Private collection, Sydney