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    Object Auto ID
    78005
    Object Description

    Portrait of a woman, arms folded in front of chest, wearing a pink shirt with fabric draped over her right shoulder and multi-coloured necklace; framed. 

    Provenance

    In terms of her Will Irma Stern bequeathed her entire collection to the Trustees of the Irma Stern Trust. The Trustees were instructed to make a core selection from her artworks and personal collection and to arrange for this collection to be housed and displayed. After her death in 1966 the first trustee, Professor J du P Scholtz, selected the Irma Stern Trust Collection which is housed in the Irma Stern Museum.

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    on back: title of portrait Watussi girl written top left by Professor Scholtz; accession number; label top right indicating that the painting formed part of the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in 1996

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    signed and dated top right Irma Stern 1946
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    91,5X68,5
    History
    Object Age
    1946
    Object Age Comment
    Irma Stern visited the Congo for the second time in 1946
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