Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Purchased from the Langton Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 1932
  Thence by direct descent to the current owner
  
  
  Although not dated, the present lot is believed to have been painted around the end of the Boer War (1902), when Oerder was a prisoner of war in Pretoria; people often saw him painting in the open veld during this time. He enjoyed the privilege of freedom to roam the Pretoria municipal area and was commissioned to do a few portraits of high-ranking officers.
  
  Depicted is a winter scene: three African women walk down the northern slope of the Apies River in the region of Van der Hove's drift. The horses graze in the commonage on the southern bank of the river. Otherwise, the expansive landscape and large scale compares to Landscape near Pretoria, in the collection of the Pretoria Art Museum:
  
  "His landscapes are among the first by settler artists who attempted to capture the light, space and bleached colours of the interior plateau of South Africa. He shifted from his palette of the greys and greens of Holland to the yellows, fawns and browns of veld and krans...a kind of sunbleached Impressionism...the hot landscape is the real subject." (Alexander & Cohen, 1990, p.39)
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY:
  L. Alexander & E. Cohen, 150 South African Paintings: Past and Present, (Cape Town, 1990)

Saleroom notices

• IMPORTANT NOTICE: The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) has declared this lot a work of national importance and has declined a permit for its export. Therefore it is not subject to VAT on either the hammer price or the buyer's premium. The lot will be available for viewing at the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg. Payment for this lot may be made in Sterling in London or in South African Rand through our Johannesburg office using the published rate of exchange on the date of the auction. Collection must be made through our Johannesburg office. Please contact the department for further information.