Notes

The artist studied painting at André Lhote’s atelier in 1949 and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1956, studied etching and engraving at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17, exhibited at Galerie Gérard Mourgue, Paris, and worked in lithographic studio of Jean-Paul Pons for three months in 1964 and 1971.

Soon after her arrival in Paris for a second study period in 1956, Bettie Cilliers-Barnard mounted an exhibition of new work at Galerie Gérard Mourque, showing nonfigurative abstract works such as the present lot. The new style, although a dramatic departure from her earlier work, was a logical stylistic progression from the work she produced under André Lhote during her first visit to Paris in 1948, and her later studies under master printmaker, Stanley William Hayter. She synthesised both these influences in work that has a characteristic abstract, graphic quality in this period.