Two Figures

Notes

This lovely smaller work emerges from Cecil Skotnes' immersion in relief printmaking, and the recognition of the block itself as the artwork, rather than just as the agent of the print. It retains the graphic quality of the print, the rolled surface with the pigment nested into the depressions of the panel. The panels he made at this time reflect a great period of imaginative creation of work that, once rooted in European traditions, is liberated in the bright air and brilliant inventiveness of his African home. I like to think this was a portrait of his lovely wife and her teenage child finding her voice!

-Pippa Skotnes,2022

Provenance

IN-FIN-ART, Cape Town.

Private Collection.