Irma Stern

African (1894 - 1966)
Irma Stern was an African artist.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an art work attributed to Irma Stern (1894-1966) was C$118 - paid for "Women in a Market" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Feb 25, 2024.
ArtValue.ca has 2 auction art sale records for their art results, with prices in the range of C$100 to C$250.

Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneka, South Africa. In 1913 Stern moved to Germany to study art at the Weimer Academy and the Levin-Funcke Studio. From 1917 she studied with Max Pechstein as part of the Novembergruppe and became associated with the German Expressionist movement. She held her first exhibition in 1919, in Berlin. In 1920 Stern returned to Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout her life Stern travelled extensively, especially across Africa, and published two illustrated journals, Congo (1943) and Zanzibar (1948). With nearly one hundred solo exhibitions during her lifetime, throughout South Africa and Europe, Stern is considered one of South Africa's most important artists. In 2005 one of her paintings sold at a London auction for nearly $5 million USD. Irma Stern died in 1966, in Cape Town.

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