South African artist, Irma Stern

Her painting “Arab in Black” was discovered in a flat in London in 2015 where its reverse was unknowingly being used as a noticeboard. The painting had originally found its way to London in the late 1

Her painting “Arab in Black” was discovered in a flat in London in 2015 where its reverse was unknowingly being used as a noticeboard. The painting had originally found its way to London in the late 1950s when it was donated to an auction being held to raise money for South Africa's treason trialists (…including Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela).