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Auction #132 begins on 09 Jul 2026

Kruger (Le Riche)

ANNA VORSTER - A BIOGRAPHY (1983) - Former copy of art historian and author FRIEDA HARMSEN

Number 53 of the Collector's Edition limited to 1000 copies

Published: CUM Books, Roodepoort, 1983

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60

Bidding opens: 9 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Jul 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's brown hardcover binding with illustrated dust jacket,

77 pages of text and black & white photographs followed by 24 pages of colour reproductions of the artist's work.

Former copy of art historian and author Frieda Harmsen with her bookplate on front endpaper. Harmsen wrote the date of acquisition of this copy below her bookplate in pencil. There are also a few light marginal notes in pencil by Harmsen and a newspaper clipping announcing the death of the artist has been neatly laid down at the end of the text. 

This is the fhe first monograph to be written on the Abstract-Expressionist South African painter.

  • Jacket Condition: Very Good
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Size: Large 4to.


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