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DR. G.H. WILDISH, M.B. Ch.B, MID-20TH CENTURY
Lot 118

DR. G.H. WILDISH, M.B. Ch.B, MID-20TH CENTURY

FIFTEEN OIL ON BOARD PANELS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE

Closed28 April 2015

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GBP 13,750

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DR. G.H. WILDISH, M.B. Ch.B, MID-20TH CENTURY
FIFTEEN OIL ON BOARD PANELS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE
Including scenes of elephants, stalking leopard, giraffe, bush buck, lions, impala, warthogs, hyena, baboons, dik-dik, a watering hole and the bush, signed to the lower corner, one dated '1938', framed with Durban label, some with pencil inscriptions to reverse
10 ½ x 26 ½ in. (26.5 x 67 cm.), each
(15)

Specialist note

These views were probably painted in or around the area of Ngotshe, northern KwaZulu-Natal, and probably in the Ithala Game Reserve. Dr. G.H. Wildish lived and worked in this area as the District Surgeon in Eshowe, his marriage was recorded in Ngotshe in 1908 and he also published research papers, such as the 'Antimony in Leprosy' for the Oxford Journals in 1922. These atmospheric paintings were probably made during his retirement in the late 1940s.