Pricey art

Bonhams Auction House in New Bond Street, London, held a sale of South African art recently. About 300 South African works sold for close to £4-million within three hours. Most of the works sold went to Europe or the USA, bought mainly by expat South Africans. This included paintings, ceramics, sculptures and silver. The works included some by Irma Stern, Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Maggie Laubser, and Gerald Sekoto. The Mandela Rhodes Foundation offered a work by Nelson Mandela - an original signed lithograph showing the bars of his cell on Robben Island with the sea and Table Mountain beyond.