This oil on canvas, by Peter Hall, on display at Hyde Park, nicely captures the mood of a late-afternoon Highveld thunderstorm in Joburg. The sudden darkness at the close of a long, hot day, the crash of thunder, the filaments of lightning on the horizon, and then, the deluge. As I was admiring the painting, and tapping away on my phone, a man came up behind me and said, “I hope you’re not thinking of buying that”, and I said oh no, I’m just admiring. And he said, “Good, because I’ve just bought it.” The price tag: R38,500. Not bad for Hyde Park. http://ift.tt/1r9t998