INVESTMENT ART! Vintage Framed Painting by SA Artist P. BAWCOMBE (1906-2000) titled "SCHOONGEZICHT"

 INVESTMENT ART! VINTAGE FRAMED WATERCOLOR PAINTING BY SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST, PHILIP BAWCOMBE (1906-2000), TITLED"SCHOONGEZICHT" WINE CELLARS CAPE PROVINCE"

PHILIP WILLIAM BAWCOMBE, FRSA, BORN IN LONDON IN 1906 AND DIED IN 2000, WAS AN OFFICIAL SOUTH AFRICAN WAR ARTIST DURING WORLD WAR II, WHO ALSO PRODUCED ACCLAIMED COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS ILLUSTRATING THE CITIES OF JOHANNESBURG AND KIMBERLEY. 

BAWCOMBE WAS ELECTED A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS IN 1938.    PHILIP BAWCOMBE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAK OF WWII AND HE ENLISTED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES, SERVING INITIALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE HE WAS COMMISSIONED SECOND IN COMMAND OF A CAMOUFLAGE UNIT.  HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DESIGNING DUMMY TANKS CONSTRUCTED ON THE BACKS OF MILITARY LORRIES AS A DECOY.   FROM 1941 TO 1945 HE COVERED THE NORTH AFRICAN AND ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS AS THE OFFICIAL SOUTH AFRICAN WAR ARTIST.  MANY OF HIS PAINTINGS ARE IN THE DITSONG NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY IN JOHANNESBURG.

THIS IS AN ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA (WATERCOLOR & INK)  BY THE ARTIST PHILIP BAWCOMBE AND THE ITEM IS CRISP LOOKING AND VIVIDLY PAINTED, DEPICTING "SCHOONGEZICHT, WINE CELLARS, CAPE PROVINCE".    

RUSTENBERG IN STELLENBOSCH WAS DIVIDED IN THE 1800's BY OWNER JACOB EKSTEEN AND HE GAVE A SECTION TO HIS SON-IN-LAW. WHO NAMED IT SCHOONGEZICHT AND THEN SOLD IT.  BY THE 1850's THE RUSTENBERG AREA INCLUDING SCHOONGEZICHT WENT INTO BANKRUPTCY DUE TO VINE DISEASES.  IN 1892, JOHN X. MERRIMAN, LATER PRIME MINISTER OF THE CAPE, REVITALIZED THE FARMS   IN 1941 THE BARLOW FAMILY PURCHASED THE FARMS AND TODAY THE WINE FARMS OF SCHOONGEZICHT HAVE BEEN IN THE BARLOW FAMILY FOR 70 YEARS.

THE PAINTING IS FRAMED IN A VINTAGE WOOD FRAME PAINTED WHITE. THE FRAME HAS PROTECTIVE GLASS AND A BACKBOARD AND IS ALREADY WIRED TO BE DISPLAYED.

STAMPS/MARKS ETC : THE PAINTING IS SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT AND TITLED BOTTOM LEFT.

CONDITION : THE ITEM IS IN PERFECT CONDITION WITH NO DAMAGES, CRACKS, CHIPS, BREAKAGES ETC.

SIZE : FRAME - 55.2cm LEFT TO RIGHT.....45cm TOP TO BOTTOM.....1.2cm THICK

          PAINTING - 43cm LEFT TO RIGHT.....32.5cm TOP TO BOTTOM