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Strauss & Co · Mar 27, 2023ZAR 49,245 ≈ $2,688 ≈ £2,191 ≈ €2,495Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Cloudscape
Paul Emsley (South African, b. 1947)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate ZAR 8,000 – ZAR 12,000 (≈ $542 – $813) (≈ £420 – £630) (≈ €486 – €729)
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
- Drawing (chalk) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “black chalk on paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with the artist's initials
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 18 by 18cm excluding frame
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- Saturday Live (126)
- Date
- October 19, 2019
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 138
- Estimate
- ZAR 8,000 – ZAR 12,000 (≈ $542 – $813) (≈ £420 – £630) (≈ €486 – €729)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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