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Lot 18

John Balopi, Zimbabwean active c.1947 -   Cyrene, 1947; watercolour and ink on paper, signed, titled...

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Lot 18

John Balopi, 
Zimbabwean active c.1947 -   
Cyrene, 1947; 
watercolour and ink on paper, signed, titled...

Price Realised: £656

Estimate: £500 - £700

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 18

Description

John Balopi, 
Zimbabwean active c.1947 -   

Cyrene, 1947; 

watercolour and ink on paper, signed, titled and dated lower left 'John Balopi Cyrene 1947', 64 x 46 cm 

Provenance:  
the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988) 

Note: 
in 1949, large number of works by Zimbabwean pupils at the Cyrene Mission near Bulawayo school were bought to London for exhibition by the school's founder, Canon Edward Patterson (1895-1974). Shows were held at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery and London Central School of Arts and Crafts before touring to Paris and America. 200 of these works are now in the collection of Central St. Martin's School of Art and a large number of previously lost works were recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare in 2022. 

Patterson described the typical Cyrene picture as, 

'large imperial sheet crammed to the sky with every imaginable sort of detail: rocks, trees, animals, villages and people. My students at Cyrene have not attempted to paint landscape but rather the detail one gets after a picnic with children in the Matapos; detail added to detail until there remains only room for a thin line of empty sky against which the final details are silhouetted.' 

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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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(ARR) - ARTIST'S RESALE RIGHT

Qualifying living artists and the descendants of artists deceased within the last 70 years are entitled to receive a re-sale royalty each time their work is bought through an auction house or art market professional.

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0 to £50,000 - 4%
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£200,000.01 to £350,000 - 1%
£350,000.01 to £500,000 - 0.5%
Exceeding £500,000 - 0.25%
ARR is capped at £12,500

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