Irma Stern’s best paintings confirm her stature as a consummate artist and celebrated colourist. Nowhere is this better observed than in her still life paintings. As acknowledged Stern authority, Marion Arnold, reminds us, “although many of Irma Stern’s wide range of subjects derived from hasty notations during her travels, the interior spaces of her home and the sanctuary that was her studio were as important to her as the world at large. Her still life paintings comprise some of her most sumptuous and sensual images.