Dear Colin
I have forwarded a report on your paintings under separate cover. I trust you have received this. Please let me know if this is not adequate or if you have any further questions.
I might add that everything I told you about you Canadian friend is readily available on the internet if you Google his name together with Gregoire Boonzaier. Also I have never seen these paintings before.
Kindest regards
To whom it may concern
This is to confirm that I have examined the paintings described below and am of the opinion that none of the five paintings is by the artist it is purported to be by and that all the signatures and dates where applicable have been added by another hand and are not that of the artist named.
A BUILDING WITH BLUE DOME, behind trees and buildings
Oil on board
29 by 39cm
Bears signature and date “Gregoire 1972”
EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE, with a clump of trees to the left, under a cloudy sky
Oil on board
39 by 49cm
Bears signature and date “Pierneef 21”
FARM BUILDINGS, with a tree in the left foreground , under a cloudy sky
Oil on canvas
54 by 44,5cm
Bears signature and date “Irma Stern 1934”
BOATS IN A HARBOUR
Oil on canvas
60 by 75cm
Bears signature “Irma Stern”
LANDSCAPE WITH FARMHOUSE AND BUILDINGS, a river in the foreground
Oil on canvas
49,5 by 59,5cm
Bears signature and date “Pierneef 1929”
Translation of Newspaper Report to follow
HERE IS THE LISTS OF RARE COINS HANDED TO ANNANDALE’S MOTHER
