Artist's existence confirmed
2009-08-20
FOLLOWING last week’s article about a former Paarlite who has sold paintings by an unknown South African artist to well-known British collections, evidence has reached Paarl Post that the artist, Anne Petrie, had indeed lived and worked in Fish Hoek. Glenn Strutt, now an art dealer in Europe, has sent documentary proof that neither Bonhams nor the Royal Collection were duped, as was feared, when they purchased paintings from him in Britain. Among the documents provided were the catalogue of an exhibition of the SA Association of Arts’ annual exhibition in Cape Town in November 1967. Two paintings by the artist, then 35 years old, are listed. In the same year she also exhibited at the Fish Hoek Arts Festival. Reports in the newspaper, Fish Hoek Echo, refer to paintings exhibited by the artist as a member of St Margaret’s Art Society in 1966. Strutt purchased her paintings at an auction after her death a few years ago.
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