Notes

"[The two silkscreen prints] were based on a pair of wood panels which were actually commissioned for a newly built Dutch Reformed church situated on the way to the airport in Durban. This church was a pioneering architectural project, in that it was the first to be built with a suspended sound deadening ceiling, designed to counter the noise of aircraft flying overhead. The themes of the panels were the 'Doop' and the 'Nagmaal' (the baptism and the communion), and my rather progressive works were initially rejected by the elders of the church committee, presumably as they were too modern for their taste. Their rejection was unanimously overturned by the younger members of the congregation as they said that they were the future of the church, and they wanted the works as they were. So they were installed in the church!"

Raymond Andrews

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in the mid 1970s.