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Droë vlakte kafee, algemene handelaar en slaghuis naby Stilbaai

Title: “Droë vlakte kafee, algemene handelaar en slaghuis naby Stilbaai”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 61 x 71 cm.

This title is a difficult one to translate. The following may be a possibility: “Dry plane, convenience store, general dealer and butchery near Stilbaai.” Stilbaai in translation would be “Quiet Bay”, or possibly “Bay of Tranquillity.” It doesn’t seem to work in translation. Hopefully the painting captures something more universal than language is able to in this case.

Price: Sold

Geloof, De Hoop en wasdag

Geloof, De Hoop en wasdag

Title: “Geloof, De Hoop en wasdag”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 71 x 61 cm.

The scene in this painting is of a church and a corregated iron house at De Hoop, near Oudtshoorn, in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. The settlement’s name means “The Hope”. Farmers in the area built the church in the painting, hoping that it would become a church town. The town never materialised and the settlement now consists only of a few buildings, including the corrugated iron house in the painting. A translation for the title would be something like “Faith, Hope and Washing Day”.

Price: Sold

Click here for a poem on the painting (in Afrikaans), as well as a conversation with, amongst others, Breyten Breytenbach, Johann de Lange and Desmond Painter on the poem and the painting (also in Afrikaans).

For sales contact: admin[at]andriesbezuidenhout.co.za Paintings can be viewed at the artist’s studio in Murrayfield, Pretoria by prior arrangement.

Bellevue herbesoek

Bellevue herbesoek

Title: “Bellevue herbesoek”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 75.5 x 61 cm

This house also features in a painting by South African landscape painter Walter Meyer. Meyer painted the scene two decades ago. In his version a car is parked on the pavement in front of the house and the palm tree is still small. This painting revisits the house in Johannesburg’s suburb of Bellevue twenty years on and is a tribute to Walter Meyer’s work.

Price: R15 000

For sales contact: admin[at]andriesbezuidenhout.co.za

Belgravia, laatmiddag

Belgravia, laatmiddag

Title: “Belgravia, laatmiddag”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Late afternoon in Belgravia, a suburb of Kimberley in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The house was most probably built by the diamond mining company De Beers. Kimberley was the hub of diamond mining in South Africa and the country’s notorious compound system for migrant mine workers originated here.

Price: Not for sale

For sales contact: admin[at]andriesbezuidenhout.co.za Paintings can be viewed at the artist’s studio in Murrayfield, Pretoria by prior arrangement.