Cape Dutch Homestead at Dusk
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1924CreatedArtist's studio, StellenboschCompleted and signed by the artist in autumn 1924. Documented in the artist's own ledger (Demo Reference #D-001).
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1938AcquiredSuid-Afrikaanse Kunsvereniging annual exhibition, Cape TownPurchased at the society's annual open exhibition by a Bloemfontein collector. Original receipt held in estate.
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1971TransferredEstate of P.J. Mostert, BloemfonteinInherited by the collector's daughter following probate. No change to physical condition noted at time of transfer.
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2025-11-03AcquiredStrauss & Co Johannesburg, Lot 47Sold with full catalogue attribution note and condition report. Accompanied by estate correspondence confirming 1938 purchase.
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Art-Historical Context
Cape Dutch domestic architecture and the golden light of the Western Cape provided an enduring subject for South African painters of the early twentieth century. This fictional work by DEMO: Elara van Zijl places the viewer at the threshold of dusk: a whitewashed gabled homestead dissolves into the violet-tinted hills of the Boland, its thatch roof burnished copper by a setting sun. Van Zijl, a fictional alumna of the 1920s Cape colony art world, worked in a tradition bridging the Dutch tonal inheritance brought by earlier settler painters and a nascent sensitivity to African light unmediated by European academicism. Her treatment of shadow on lime-washed walls, the characteristic scalloped gable echoing the mountain contour, and the restrained palette of ochre, indigo, and cream place this demonstration piece within a recognisably local idiom. The work is presented here purely to illustrate the Attesté public provenance certificate format.
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