Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles
Frans Claerhout was a South African painter who was born in 1919. Frans Claerhout's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 21 USD to 38,251 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 38,251 USD for Bridal Couple in a Donkey Cart, sold at Strauss & Co., Johannesburg in 2009. The artist died in 2006.
Artist's alternative names: Frans Martin Claerhout
While both main local auction houses continue to object to Dalro's efforts to collect royalties for reproductions of pictures in sales catalogues, those for the first two sales of the year, both in Cape Town.
The failure -- not for the first time in recent sales -- of some of the fancied Irma Sterns was partially redeemed by some remarkable prices in unexpected places at Bonhams's sale of SA art in London last week.