Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000USD 4 434 - 6 651
About this Item
South African 1932-2006
Fishermen
signed
acrylic on canvas
55 by 40cm excluding frame; 66,5 by 51 by 3cm including frame
Notes
Marianne Podlashuc was born in the Netherlands in 1932 and studied at the Rotterdam Academy before emigrating to South Africa in 1952. She settled in Bloemfontein and, with her husband Alexander Podlashuc, was a founding member of the Bloemfontein Group. The couple relocated to Port Elizabeth in 1964 when Alexander accepted a teaching post at the city's technical college.
'Marianne Podlashuc is possessed of a profound social consciousness and projects it in powerful stylized images of lesser privileged local communities. Her composition is unconventional; she handles the internal pictorial space with a sense of the dramatic; her figures are conceived monumentally with emphasis on plastic volumes.'
Esmé Berman