Fanie (Stephanus Johannes Paulus) Eloff South
Provenance : [Timeline chronologique]
1947-01-01 | Following Eloff's death in 1947 it was purchased by his family at an auction in 1948
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- The Fanie Eloff Family Collection LITERATURE Gerard de Kamper and Chris de Klerk
- (2011) Sculptured - The Complete Works of Fanie Eloff, Dept of UP Arts for Pretoria University
- Illustrated on page 70
- Dr FCL Bosman
- (1961) 'Fanie Eloff' in Our Art, Vol 2, SA Association for the Advancement of Knowledge and Culture
- Pages 115 and 116: Fanie Eloff was the grandson of President Paul Kruger
- Pierneef and Gerard Moerdyk were Fanie's school-fellows at the old Staatsmodelskool in Pretoria....He spent the greater part of his creative life in Paris, returning to South Africa in 1941
- After his death in 1947, all the sculptures he had left behind in his Paris studio were shipped out here and a large memorial exhibition was held in Pretoria under the auspices of the South African Academy for Arts and Science
- Eloff wished to maintain the principle of art for art's sake, of the sovereignty of the artist, and of homage due to all creative work
- It is the artist's studies of figures in motion, executed in bronze, which, above all others, bear the unmistakable stamp of his individual style
- All his figures are characterized by spontaneity of expression, and Eloff achieves a delightful significance of form in which the static qualaity of his medium is completely forgotten
- [edited] The original plaster cast was brought to South Africa from France after the war but was never cast in bronze
- This is one of three bronze casts made at the Vignali Foundry in Pretoria, which Eloff used
- Russian Ballet I and II were the last works Eloff did before fleeing Paris, which may explain why they were not signed
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