Notes

Painted in the late 1940s or early 1950s, the present lot is part of a larger body of work in which the artist explored a variety of compositional variations within rural landscapes. These works feature people going about their everyday activities, including mothers carrying their babies or collecting water or firewood. These compositions are frequently populated with chickens and sheep, and foliated with sunflowers, mealies and paw-paw trees within hilly landscapes.

Laubser’s choice of vibrant salmon pink in the seated figure’s dress and emerald green grasslands, alongside a warm ochre pathway with russet hues backed by a misty blue-grey sky, further emphasises a sub-tropical atmosphere of fecundity and abundance.