Notes

Michael Taylor indicates that the present lot forms “…part of a series of early portraits when I started painting groups of figures.”¹ He explains that his initial intention was to depict each character holding a bunch of flowers to present to the viewer. While he did not, however, carry out this original idea, he found that the composition of the group ended up resembling a bouquet of flowers. As for the title, The Sorry Bunch, Taylor comments “The combination of facial expressions and gestural expressions describe what kind of occasion the [‘bunch’] could suggest. The double meaning of the title means that the message behind the group could also be more than one thing – perhaps apologetic or perhaps a farewell.”²

1. E-mail correspondence with Michael Taylor, 6 March 2022.
2. Ibid.

Provenance

WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, May 2014.