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The Affie100 Art Auction presents internationally known artists for a good cause

The Affie100 Fund Trust presents the online Affie100 Art Auction featuring artworks internationally known artists to works by students of Afrikaanse Hoër Seuns and Afrikaanse Hoër Meisies Skool as well as of Pretoria Boys High School. The auctions offers art collectors and art lovers the chance to contribute to this Affie100 Trust Fund that has the objective to support feeding schemes and community upliftment programs in less privileged communities and to contribute to the upkeep and development of Affie facilities. Another aim of the Art Auction is to support the arts industry that has been severely hit by the impact of covid-19.

The online auction makes the art available to anyone to peruse and participate in the viewing and bidding process. Some of the artists on auction include internationally known sculptor Anton Smit; international award-winning artists Diane Victor, Dr. Jan van der Merwe and Tracy Payne; local award-winning artists Collen Maswanganyi, Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, Anton Karstel, Jaco Benade and Helena Hugo; academics Dr. Gwenneth Miller, Gordon Froud and Carl Jeppe; international glass artist Lothar Böttcher; Spanish-South African artist Pascual Tarazona; and well-known artists such as Eric Duplan, Michele Nigrini, Lynette ten Krooden, Wayne Vivier, Anna Liebenberg, Thabo Pitso, Tracy Algar, Philip Badenhorst, Natasja de Wet, Rosa Snyman-Wessels, Jan Tshikhuthula, Tanisha Bhana, Cobus Haupt, Nina Torr, Hougaard Winterbach, Mary-Jane Morris, Susan Grundlingh, Peter Mammes, Lucas Bambo and Debbie Cloete. There is also a set of sketches by Marius B Badenhorst of the school buildings.

The online auction runs from 10 July 2021 and closes on 30 July 2021 at 8pm when all bids will be closed. For more information, visit affie100.co.za.