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Chinese Tree
Michael Pettit (South African, b. 1950)
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Estimate ZAR 70,000 – ZAR 90,000 (≈ $9,507 – $12,223) (≈ £5,924 – £7,617) (≈ €6,440 – €8,279)
Offered at Strauss & Co and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 138 by 164cm excluding frame
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics (7)
- Date
- October 8, 2009
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 157
- Estimate
- ZAR 70,000 – ZAR 90,000 (≈ $9,507 – $12,223) (≈ £5,924 – £7,617) (≈ €6,440 – €8,279)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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Strauss & Co · Sep 29, 2025ZAR 16,818 ≈ $973 ≈ £724 ≈ €830Sign up free to see price
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Strauss & Co · Oct 8, 2009ZAR 4,233,200 ≈ $574,911 ≈ £358,267 ≈ €389,427Sign up free to see price
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