Pencil drawing of landscape [allegedly by JH Pierneef]

Pencil drawing of landscape [allegedly by JH Pierneef]

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A rough pencil landscape study likely erroneously attributed to Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (1886-1957). The sketch is more naturalistic than the highly stylised, geometric structuring typical of Pierneef's work. The double border in pencil also departs from know examples by him in this genre.

landscape study (attributed to Pierneef in the old library fonds), pencil sketch (of a rocky landscape dominated by an overhanging tree), humanoid figure (possibly beyond something resembling a gate or fence post), double border (in pencil), pencil drawing (of a landscape with trees and rocks and a figure at a gate)

This unsigned and undated item's attribution is uncertain. Either the unscanned obverse or the bold squiggle above a prominently dark foxing spot (bottom right corner) resembling Pierneef's signature may have informed the original fonds attribution (https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php/portrait-painting-5).