Breyten Breytenbach (South African, Born 1939) 'Common Or Garden Peace'
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Note : PROVENANCE: Sale, Auction Perrin, Royere, La Jeunesse, France, 26 April 1987, lot 38 A private collectionBreyten Breytenbach studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s and in France he was a founder member of Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile. On an illegal trip to South Africa in 1975 he was betrayed, arrested and sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for high treason. His work The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist describes aspects of his imprisonment. Released in 1982 as a result of massive international intervention he returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship.
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