Zanzibar portrait with excellent museum credentials up for auction

The pioneering South African modernist painter Irma Stern journeyed to the East African archipelago of Zanzibar twice, in 1939 and 1945, where she produced portraits revered by generations of collectors for their mastery of form and subject. Strauss & Co is proud to offer The Smoker , a highly important Zanzibar portrait made during Stern’s second visit in 1945.

“The Smoker is a captivating depiction of a Zanzibari man intently engaged in the act of smoking a pipe and showcases Stern’s painterly skills at their triumphant best,” says Jean le Clus-Theron, Head of Sale, Strauss & Co. “The portrait is a masterful blend of focused energy, flamboyant painterliness and intricate descriptive detail.

Adds Le-Clus-Theron: “We are doubly delighted to be offering this significant work a month before the opening of the 2022 edition of Venice Biennale. Stern’s work routinely appeared in exhibitions at this important global art forum throughout the 1950s.

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