R1,200 - R1,500
DIT KAN HIER GEBEUR/IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (LIMITED EDITION, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY ARTIST) by Frans Claerhout
Bloemfontein: Dreyer Printers and Publishers, 1998
4to, Unpaginated. Original hardcover binding. With fine full-colour reproductions of Claerhout’s paintings.
Limited edition of 300 copies, of which this is no. 294. With an original drawing by the artist in felt-tip pen on the front endpaper, and signed by the artist.
Frans Claerhout (1919-2006) was a Belgian painter who spent most of his adult life in South Africa. Claerhout had no formal art training but came from an artistic family, and had belonged to a local art society during his student years. Claerhout has been defined as an expressionist painter and his work referenced Flemish Expressionism especially the works of Constant Permeke, whose paintings, like Claerhout's, were concerned with agricultural labourers and the land they tend. Examples of his work, characterised by their warm colours, thick impasto paint, exaggerated forms, humour and compassion were exhibited widely in South Africa, as well as in Belgium, Canada, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. (wikipedia)
*Location: Johannesburg branch
Condition: Very good. Slight rubbing to boards, and minor scratches to rear board. A few minor bumps to the fore edges of the boards. Internally clean and bright. Well bound.
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