Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art

Online-Only Auction, 30 May - 13 June 2022

Watercolour: The Choreography of Chance and Control
  • Alan Crump; Composition with Standing Forms
  • Alan Crump; Composition with Standing Forms
  • Alan Crump; Composition with Standing Forms
  • Alan Crump; Composition with Standing Forms
  • Alan Crump; Composition with Standing Forms


Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 16 000

About this Item

South African 1949-2009
Composition with Standing Forms

signed and dated '84

watercolour and pastel on paper
68 by 64cm excluding frame; 86 by 82 by 2cm including frame

Notes

Alan Crump distinguished himself as a watercolourist with an unrivalled mastery of this notoriously difficult medium. He was driven by a fearless vision of excellence and his watercolours are a testament to his unwavering vision and consummate skill as an artist.

Crump is perhaps best remembered as an important and influential arts administrator in the South African art world and as Professor of Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he had a significant influence on generations of students. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and at the National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown in 2011.

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