Lot 5 · Modern and Contemporary Art: Day Sale
Wild Dagga (Leonotis Leonurus) in the Leeuw River Valley, Swellendam
Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk · oil on canvas
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- Estimate
- R20,000–R30,000 hammer ≈ $1,082–$1,623
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Strauss & Co — Modern and Contemporary Art: Day Sale, Online · 8 November 2023
- Dimensions
- 60 by 49,5cm excluding frame; 77,5 by 67 by 6cm including frame
- Record ID
- TB-2026-13357340
- Record
- first seen 4 Aug 2026 · updated 9 Aug 2026 · source ↗
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- TB-2026-13357340 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-13357340
Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, Wild Dagga (Leonotis Leonurus) in the Leeuw River Valley, Swellendam. Strauss & Co, 8 Nov 2023, lot 5. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13357340.
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Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, Wild Dagga (Leonotis Leonurus) in the Leeuw River Valley, Swellendam. Strauss & Co, 8 Nov 2023, lot 5. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13357340.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Bin Salim | Terence Mccaw | R40,000–R60,000 | |
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.