Notes

In an interview with Walter Battiss for an article in Lantern in 1952, Eugene Labuschagne stated his vision: “Juan Gris once said that painting was architecture on a flat surface. In his last paintings he succeeded in bringing perspective back to the surface of the canvas but his work remained unfinished. For us, the younger generation, he left an inexhaustible wealth of possibilities to continue the process of pictorial simplification to a point where our two-dimensional architecture can attain the highest aesthetic freedom and symbolic richness beyond the limitations imposed by the object and the surface.”¹

Les Acrobates was included in the 7th Salon de Mai exhibition in Paris, 1951, catalogue number 283. A copy of the catalogue is included with this lot.

¹ http://www.johansborman.co.za/exhibition-work/aspects-of-abstraction-gallery-i/6_eugene_labuschagne_abstract_1957_oil_on_canvas_78_x625_cm.jpg/ 

Exhibited

Salon de Mai, Paris, 8-31 May, Participations, page 4, catalogue number 283