South African landscapes in visual art, poetry and music
Title: “Wintersnelweg na Johannesburg”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 51 x 61 cm
The N3 highway from KwaZulu-Natal into Johannesburg. On the horison is the city’s characteristic skyline, the Hillbrow tower visible from afar. Veld fires to welcome the visitor.
Price: Sold
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
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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
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Title: “Padlangs naby Mooirivier”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm
Roadside sunset near the town Mooi River in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
Price: R6 500
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Title: “Bloekom met kennisgewing, verbrand”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 51 x 61 cm
Eucalyptus tree, killed by a fire, with a handmade signpost nailed to the trunk. High summer, on the road from Potchefstroom to Carletonville.
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Title: “Sanddraai plaasskool”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 61 x 71 cm
A farm school near Warden in the Free State. Read more about the painting here. (In Afrikaans)
Price: Sold
Title: “Lutherse kerk, Langkloof”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, kiaat frame
Lutheran church at Haarlem in the Langkloof, near Oudtshoorn.
Price: R4 500
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Title: “Kaapstad snelweg”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 76 x 91 cm
The N1 highway into Cape Town on a windy day.
Price: Sold
Title: “Bloekom naby Welverdiend”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 cm
Eucalyptus tree on a windy day, near the railway town of Welverdiend.
Price: R4 500 (SOLD)