Irma Stern™ Museum

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This guide to the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town centers on Arab Priest, a portrait the artist painted in 1945 that hung on one wall of this house for nearly forty years before it was pulled down and sold at a London auction in March 2011 for a record price. It follows the buyer, Qatar's national museums authority, and South Africa's heritage watchdog, which refused to let the painting simply leave the country. Find the pale patch of wall in the room where visitors once stood facing the old imam's stare.