Notes

In a candid 1935 interview with the press at the opening of his Johannesburg exhibition, Gwelo stated: "I paint roses, I was going to say as well as any man alive-but probably better. Fantin-Latour is the only rival I have ever had as a rose painter."¹

¹ Newton Thompson, Joyce. Gwelo Goodman: South African Painter. Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951, page 107

Provenance

Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg