Bird with Tomatoes

Notes

"... As time wore on, it became apparent to the public - as it had been conspicuous to her small circle of admirers - that Maggie Laubser, for all her so-called 'foreign modernism' was more South African than any other painter in the country; that she alone had crystallized her people's identification with the soil and their simple holistic view of nature; that behind the apparent naiveté of her forms there was a devout appreciation of spiritual unity which binds all living things..."¹

^1. Esmé Berman (1996) Art and Artists of South Africa, Johannesburg: South Book, page 254.

Provenance

Isabel Niehaus (née van Vuuren) Thaba N'chu.

The Clare Basson Collection.

Private Collection.