Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 26 September 2011
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Paintings Day Sale
About this Item
South African 1921-1990
Girlie and Mr Bezuidenhout
studio stamp signature
pencil
25 by 35cm excluding frame
Notes
At first glance this sketch looks like a cartoon.
The Bezuidenhouts lived on a farm in the Piet Retief district. Eugene Labuschagne did this sketch of them seated on a bench in the 1950s. Mr Bezuidenhout called his wife "Girlie" and she thus became known to everyone in the district as "Girlie Bezuidenhout".
By the late 1950s Girlie's obesity problem had become so severe that Mr Bezuidenhout had to modify the back of his old 1940s Chev so that she could fit into it.
This sketch is neither a caricature nor a flattering portrait, but a gentle, accurate record of the Bezuidenhouts at their best looking.
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