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  • Wolf Kibel; Marist Brothers School, Cape Town
  • Wolf Kibel; Marist Brothers School, Cape Town
  • Wolf Kibel; Marist Brothers School, Cape Town
  • Wolf Kibel; Marist Brothers School, Cape Town
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ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
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About this Item

Wolf Kibel
South African 1903-1938
Marist Brothers School, Cape Town

inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the date on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse

oil on canvas
57 by 62cm excluding frame; 67,5 by 72 by 3,5cm including frame

Notes

"This is an elegiac work, shot through with a quiet brooding melancholy. It is executed in muted colours heightened by a baleful flickering highlight on the foreground gateway. The wall containing it is a beautifully painted area. It presages one of Kibel's most splendid paintings, where his longfeldt interest in the painterly sensations to be wrung out of old peeling stretches of masonry reaches a heroic climax."1

1Neville Dubouw, 'Wolf Kibel, A Critical Assessment of his Work with a Note on its Place in South African Art', in Kibel, Freda & Dubow, Neville (1968)Wolf Kibel: A Brief Sketch of his Life and Work, Johannesburg: Human & Rousseau Publishers, on page 40.

Accompanied by Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town, insurance valuation, dated 2/5/1966.

Provenance

The Victor Holloway Collection.

Exhibited

Republic Arts Festival, Pretoria, May 1966.

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, September 1976, Wolf Kibel Retrospective, catalogue number 9.

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