Naby Ladismith ,1981
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Notes : Erik Laubscher is one of South Africa’s leading twentieth-century landscape artists. He is most renowned for his distinctive abstract, and later expressive, renderings of the Western Cape countryside and Namibian desertscape. These works remain significant and continue to impress through their timeless appeal.In this work, painted in 1981, Laubscher returned to his signature hard-edge style of the 1960s to capture a mesmerizing panoramic view of a valley near the town of Ladismith, located in the western Klein Karoo. He presents a visually monumental composition in which the elements of the cultivated land, and the surrounding Swartberge in the distant background, are translated into basic forms and textured planes of brilliantly bright and warm colours. It is a visually engaging work - an inimitable interpretation of the vastness and light of the area.
Marelize van Zyl
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