Alfred Krenz
Basuto Going Through Mielies
About this Item
signed and dated 59; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on a Pretoria Art Museum label adhered to the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse
Provenance
Pola Polapasvolsky.
Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 17 May 1999, lot 224.
Property of a Gentleman.
Notes
"The overall rhythmic design reduces the space to the picture plane, creating a flat-patterned surface informed by the curvilinear relationships between the human figures and the graceful mielie stalks. Trained in Vienna at the height of European modernism (the 1920s) and deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, Krenz was a formalist painter in whose work the subject matter serves as an inspiration for exploring the complexities of form and space."1
1Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.
Literature
Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 25.
Exhibited
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Alfred Krenz Retrospective Exhibition, 1975, cat. no. 13.
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Alfred Krenz Retrospective Exhibition, 1975, cat. no. 13.
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