Johannes Pe Rus Meintjes South African 1923-1
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- Mrs Cecily Niven (Sir Percy FitzPatrick's daughter) LITERATURE Kobus Opperman
- (2007) Die Dagboek van Johannes Meintjes, (unpublished)
- Volume VIII, pages 114, 144, 243, 245, 248, 249 and 255; Volume IX, page 27
- The Diary of Johannes Meintjes, catalogue number JM 880
- This painting was originally intended as the cover for Meintjes' book, De La Rey, Lion of the West, published in 1966 by Hugh Keartland, Johannesburg
- A copy of this book is included in this lot
- Two entries from Meintjes’ unpublished diary manuscript (‘Dagboek VIII) relate: 42273.875 ‘Ernest Stanton [Hugh Keartland Publishers, Johannesburg] phoned me in a state of great excitement yesterday afternoon
- They apparently received a large v lume of material relating to General De la Rey and they are now looking for a suitable biographer
- And because they were so impressed by my Olive Schreiner, could I?, would I?
- A commission’. 42400.875 ‘Work is progressing well
- DLR [manuscript of book on De la Rey] is at page 245 and I have just completed a good portrait of him in oil, intended as cover for the book’
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