Purple Abstract Composition

Literature

R J Angel (no date) Mobil Court Art Collection: A Collection of South African Visual Art, Mobil Oil Southern Africa, illustrated in colour, unpaginated, with the title Untitled.

Provenance

The Engen Collection.

Notes

Louis van Heerden is a South African artist whose early works, as featured in the present lot, reveal a strong leaning toward abstraction. He began his teaching career at Pretoria Boys High School, where notable artists Walter Battiss and Larry Scully also taught. A dedicated figure in the local art scene, he joined the South African Art Association and later served as its president. While his later work often focused on intimate interior scenes with floral arrangements, his early abstractions highlight a dynamic and exploratory phase of his artistic journey.