TAPESTRIES

1950s

Abstract cushion cover 1958 (h16.5 x 25ins / 42 x 64cm)
Balloon Man 1958 (h26 x 25 ins / 67 x 64 cm)
African Dancers 1958? (25 x 28 ins / 64 x 71 cm)
Three Birds – tap no. 4 1959  (26 x 47 ins / 67 x 120 cm)
Rose 1959  (26 x 19 ins / 67 x 49 cm)

1960s

Ancient African Continuity 1960 (28in x 46in / 71cm x 117cm)
Rooster 1960? (36.5 x 24.5 ins/ 92 x 62 cm)
Rhodesian landscape – Matopos 1961 (26 x 48.5 ins / 66 x 121 cm)
Moon 1962? (32.5 x 40 ins / 82 x 102 cm)
Sunlight on Stone 1963 (31 x 33 ins / 79 x 84 cm)
Still Life with beaded forms 1963  (30 x 33 ins / 76 x 84 cm)
Changing Pods 1964 (45 x 26ins / 114 x 67 cm)
The Fish 1964? (30 x 57.5 ins / 76.5 x 146 cm)
Abstract – Blue Hills 1964? (29 x 41.5 ins / 74 x 105 cm)
L’Allegro 1964? (39 x 19in / 99 x 48 cm)
Il Pensoroso 1964? (39 x 19in / 99 x 48 cm)    
Burning bush 1965?
Branching tree 1965
Maturation 1965 (59in x 52in /147cm x /132cm)  
New Worlds 1967
Tree
Wind 1968  (153 x114cm)
The still point (after T S Eliot) 1968 (56 x 49 ins/ 141 x 125 cm)
The eye 1968
Sabbath still life 1968
Fugue 1968 (46 x 43in / 117 x 110 cm)
Prelude 1968  Joan Hughes
Creation – ying yang  1969 (diameter 59ins/150cm)
Abstract rug
Ezekiel’s Vision: Wheels within wheels 1969 (57in x 61ins /144cm x155cm)
Triptych: 1 Machine Man  2 Transcendence Man 3 Cosmic Man  1966-8 (60 x 30ins)
Tuned to a Major Key 1960s  (116 x 80cm)  

1970s

African Tree with Light 1975 (102 x 58cm) - Marilyn Carr
Tree of Life (woven after Burning Bush for Ruth) 1970 (64in x 51in /162cm x129cm) 
Light Intersecting 1970 (70in x 73in /180cm x182.5cm)   
Raindrops 1970
Lotus 1974 (71ins x 84.5ins /178cm x 211cm) To my mother and father (Also quote from Ephesians Ch 28 v 4 ‘Let him who stole, steal no more, But rather let him work….) 
Cosmic Energy 3 (62 x 67ins/ 158 x 170 cm)
Space Rock (63ins x 55ins /158cm x140cm)
Spiralling shells in sea space 1975
Shell in a landscape 1976
Spring 1977 (55 x 44 ins/140 x 112 cm)
Child of the South (Panel IV of series ‘New Generation’) Nov 1978
Child of the East 1978 (38in x 25in /97cm x 63.5cm - which are the same as South and North)
Child of the North Nov 1978
Child of the West 1978 (40ins x 26.5ins /100cm x 67cm)
Shells – inner and outer aspects December 1978
The car and technological man fusing (the knights) 30th May 1979  ( 28 x 32.5cm) Wendy Sender

1980s

Branches against an Autumn sky Sept 1980 (37 x 34 cm) - Wendy Sender
African Tree at Sunset 1980 (100 x 70cm) - Marilyn Carr
“Yin-yan” – Creation 20 May 1980 (diameter 32 cm) - Wendy Sender
Climbing Children June 1981 (29 x 20 in)
African Landscape – Time and Space 1981 (16 x 57cm) - Marilyn Carr
The outside of a mother-of-pearl shell with light on it Mar 1981 (23 x 23 cm) - Jennifer Matthewson
Iridescence on the inside of a mother-of-pearl shell Mar 1981 (23 x 23 cm) - Jennifer Matthewson
Layers in a landscape 1982 (39in x 17.5in /99cm x 44cm)
Blue Waterlilies (childhood memories of the Gardens, Cape Town) 1980s
Water lilies 1982 (54 x 44cm) - Marilyn Carr
Waterlilies receding 1982? (38 x 21 in / 66 x 38 cm)
Waterlilies (frieze) 1982?
Brown machine child March 1982 - Pat Hoyle
Waterlilies in a landscape April 1982
The greening of technological man 1982 (37 x 26 in)
Child of the West (a second version) 1983
The Four Seasons (all about 40ins x 37ins /100cm x 93cm)
Spring - May/June 1983
Summer - July/Aug 1983
Autumn - Sept 1983
Winter - Dec 1983
Melodic lines of Spring from the Four Seasons Dec 1983 (18 x 20in / 46 x 51 cm)
Chamber Music [girl playing violin] 1983? (19 x 24in/48 x 61cm)
The Bat (42ins wing tip to wing tip x 29ins)
Cascading wisteria (against a blue sky) 1984 (29cm high x 28cm wide) - Anthony Sacks
Hands and technology: movement and measurement 1984
Hands conducting the New World symphony (Dvorak) March 1984
Hands conducting the Symphonie Pastorale (Beethoven) March 1984
Hands working on a branching tree 1984
Hands working on a tapestry 1984
Iris in a landscape with light 1985 (35 x 18in)
The Burning Bush 1985 (148 x100cm) - Marilyn Carr
Jerusalem steps 1985 (19 x 14in / 49 x 36 cm) - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Jerusalem Arch  1985 (19 x 14ins/49 x 36cm)
Waterlilies Aug 1986
Daisies in a field – near and far perspective 1987
Peaches (panel VI Knight in the Garden) 1987 ( 32 x 26 cm)
Flowers 1987
Lemons 1987 (21 x 18) - Winston Shapiro
Grapes 1987 (33  x  36) - Winston Shapiro
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (South Africa series) 1989 (27 x 23 ins) 
Landscape with vines (emphasis on perspective) ‘Summer’ Western Cape No 2 series ‘grapes’   Nov 11 1989  (19x 34 in / 48 x 86 cm)
Grapes on the vine 1989? (17 x 60 in / 44 x 152 cm)
Symphony for Houses 1989 (34 x 39 ins / 86 x 100 cm)
Two trees in Winter (26 x15in/ 66 x 38cm)
Rose opening 1980s (60 x 36 ins)
Two Doves Resting Sept 1981 (14.5 x 14.5 ins) - Colin Clough
Lillies in the Pond (14.5 h x 11 w ins) - Colin Clough
Arch in Holland Park (13 x 17 ins) - Colin Clough
Tree in Holland Park (17 x 17 ins) - Colin Clough
Tree of Life Switzerland (12 x 9.5ins) - Colin Clough

1990's

Family tree (variation 2, owls) June 1990 (47 x 12ins/120 x 30cm)
Miriam dancing from Exodus 15: 20-1 August 1990-1 (56 x 36ins)
Baobab Tree against a Blue Sky 1992 (26 x 29cm) - Marilyn Carr
Tree resurrected after a storm in Holland Park Nov 1991
Memory of a tree in the bush April 1992 (30 x 23 ins)
Head of a machine man
Homes, housing and technology 1992-3 (39 x 20ins)
Summer Flowers and Fruit 1994 (35  x  32) Winston Shapiro
A Evening falling on the African Bush – Waterbuck  1999 (28 x 29cm ) - Marilyn Carr
African township as evening falls 1996
Hydrangeas Undated (31cm high x 30cm wide)
Based on ‘Emergent Africa’. Variation  I. “Creative Spiral”. WIndow on Africa Undated (33.5 x 22.5cm) Wendy
Village houses Undated (111 x 26 cm) - Wendy Sender
Owl (42 x 32 cm) Wendy
Protea 100 (high) x 97 cm - Jennifer Matthewson
Raindrops  - Jennifer Matthewson
Parade - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Protea - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Doves feeding - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Child in a Moses basket - Richard and Fiona Sacks

SMALL TAPESTRIES

Irma Stern Gallery 1994
Coat of many colours 1980 (h 10 x 9 ins / 25 x 23 cm)
Shell
Ancient tree 1982
Arch Holland Park (14 x 10.5 in / 36 x 26 cm)
Cactus (burning bush)
Loaves Dec 1983
Iridescent fish (as seen in inside of shell) Aug 1995
Owls (35 x 35cm)
Young owl (h9 x 11.5ins/ 23 x 28cm)
Owls – mother and child (h 10.5 x 11.5 in / 26 x 28 cm)
XII Light on a piece of shell – the spiral and tip of the shell 4 July 79 (9.5 x 9.5in/24 x 24 cm)
Machine Man (35 x 35cm)
African Village (19 x 29cm)
Light patterns on a piece of shell
Composition 2: Balance Jan 1981
Reflection of a weeping sun: variation 2 17 Nov 1979
Movement of water 1979 (6 x 9in / 15 x 23 cm)
Drops – falling into water (8 x 11in / 20 x 28 cm)
Canterbury bells
Jerusalem hills 1985
Jerusalem steps III Aug 1985
Street in Jerusalem at sunset 1985
Jerusalem arch 1985
Tiger Lilies (11 x 12 ins/ 28 x 30cm)
Iceland poppy 1980 (12.5 x 17 in / 31 x 43 cm)

DRAWINGS

African violets (pastels) March 1981 (31cm high x 29cm wide) - Anthony Sacks
Shell on yellow background (pastel) - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Pastel of Bantry Bay ‘Houses on a Hill’/Little Sunset
Autumn sunset Bantry Bay (pastel) 1981
Hand movements on a harp 1977
Water and rocks
Threads, wool and spinning wheel
Trees with tears
Two oranges when light falls (pastel) 1977 18.5cm (height) x 17.5 (width) - Wendy Sender
Sunset, Bantry Bay (pastel) - Joan Hughes
Bantry Bay (pastel) April 1981
Boy looking at birds (oil painting) - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Cellists (pastel) - Richard and Fiona Sacks
African mask (pastel) - Richard and Fiona Sacks
Wave rising (pastel)
Cabbage (pencil)
Shell – inside and out (pastel)
Nicola and Natalie as babies (pastel) 1985
Basket of Wools (large pastel)
Hydrangeas (large pastel)
Family Tree 1992 (2 drawings – one in watercolour, the other in pen. They show Miriam’s own personal family tree)

Miriam Sacks. Tapestries and Drawings.  Catalogue.  Angela Dymott

1950s
Mother and Children 1957 (M= 3ft x 3ft)

1960s
Flying Birds 1964 (M)
Cathedral 1964 (M)
City by Night 1967 (M)
Guardian Angel 1963 (M/L 3ft x x3ft 6ins)
Emergent Africa 1965 (L= 6ft x 5ft)
Cosmic Energy 1 1966 (M)
Still Life with African musical instruments 1966 (M)
Abstract across the light 1967 (M)

1970s
Triptych – Machine Man 1 1970 (M)
Energy 3 (M)
Worker (M)
Weeping Sun 1970 (M)
Night Eyes 1970 (M/L)
Doves 1972 (M/L)
Birth 1970 (M/S - 2ft 3ins x 2ft)
The hand 1973 (M)
Two sisters in a landscape with hills 1973 (M)
Tree – inner outer aspects 1974 (M/L)
Daisies 1974 (L)

Modern Mercies 1975
Panel 1  - Knight crossing the bridge 1975 (P= 2ft 6ins x 6ft)
Panel 2 – Knight merging with the land 1975
Panel 3 – Knight dreaming of houses 1975
Panel 4 – Knight in the garden 1976
Panel 5 – Knight and the fishes 1976
Panel 6 – Knight and the loaves 1976
Panel 7 – Knight in tranquillity 1976
Panel 8 – Brown machine man 1976
Panel 9 – Knight – dreaming of hills 1979
Panel 10 – Knight and the burning bush 1979

Dove IV Transformation 1977 (M/L)
Spiralling Structures 1977
Psalm 24 – New Generation 1978 (M/L)
Owls – Mother and child 1979 (M)
Children climbing 1979 (M/S)
Iris against a sunset sky 1979 (L)

1980s
Electronic child 1980 (M)
Girl with Pomegranate before the Ark 1980 (M/L)
Girl with Ribbons at Sea 1982 (M/L)
Hands Plucking a harp 1983 (M/L)
Series Hands Still Life with musical instruments 1984 (M/L)
Hands and string instruments playing four seasons 1984 (M/L)
Tulip 1980 (M/L)
Climbing Roses on bricks 1986 (L)
Yellow Lily 1986 (L)
Corner within a garden with Canterbury bells 1986 (L)
Boy and Girl with doves 1987 (M/L)

1990s
Growing up on the metropolis 1991 (M/L)
Meeting at the Steps 1993 (M/L)

Framed Work
Triptich 1977
1. Burning Bush 1977 (1ft x 1ft 3ins)
2. Child Climbing 1977 (1ft x 1ft 3ins)
3. Fusion 1977 (1ft x 1ft 3ins)
Vibrating sea with Fishes 1985 (10ins x 10ins)
Playing the symbols (S)
Red brick houses (S)
Emergent Africa (S - 1ft x 1 ft)
Modern mercies – heads dreaming of Fishes (S - 2ft 6ins x 2ft 6ins)
Ditto - Knight and the rainbow (S - 2ft 6ins x 2ft 6ins)
Water Lilies 1991 (S - 1ft 8ins x 1ft 8ins)

Last works
Series of miniatures, still lives, children playing, cricket match. (miniatures)

LIST OF OWNERS OF MIRIAM SACKS’S WORK

Burning Bush II - Herman Wouk
Owl Family - Herman Wouk
Money God - Herman Wouk
Greening of America - Herman Wouk
Singing Pots - Herman Wouk
Garden Flowers - Herman Wouk
Child of the West - Herman Wouk
Burning Bush - University of Cape Town
Burning Bush - Barbara Dohmann, London
Sabbath Symbols - Professor E Solomon of Stanford University
Robot Man 1958 - Professor and Mrs Roger Bruton, New York
Rock Formations 1962 - Mr and Mrs E Rosenfeld, Washington
Tenements in the Sunset 1962 - Harare National Gallery
Two Heads 1962 - Harare National Gallery
African Masks - Paul Koston
Doves III 1970 - Paul Koston, UK
Crowing Cock - Dr and Mrs R Joffe
Joseph’s Coat of Many Colours - Dr and Mrs G Sutin
Children Dancing in the Sun - Dr and Mrs Bierhaus from Maine University
Rain on a Window - Mr and Mrs A Gubbay, London
The Sun and three oranges - Mrs Cato de Waal, Stellenbosch
Young Girl - Mrs Box-Grainger
Movement in Space - Beryl Chitty, Oxford
Sun and three Oranges - Mrs Cato de Waal, Stellenbosch
Electronic Grey Man - Mr J Leibowitz, Cape Town
Mandala Tree - Mrs Thompson, Cape Town
Three Suns - Leo Rothschild, London
Sabbath Symbols - Prof E Solomon, Stanford University, California
Il Pensoroso - Peter Janaway and Vanessa Wiggins, Bucks
Ancient Tree - Beryl Pankhurst, London
SInging Pots – an unstill life - Linda Glazer, Israel
Brown machine child 1982 - Pat Hoyle, Switzerland