Exhibited

South African Association of Arts, Pretoria, Historical Exhibition of South African Art at the Pretoria Centenary, 13 to 30 September 1955.

Literature

Esmé Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: AA Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 233.

Notes

In 1933, Wolf Kibel was living in Cape Town and found friendship with fellow artist Hugo Naude who gave him use of a large studio which housed a printing press. This was the year that Kibel’s wife and son, Freda and Joseph, joined him in Cape Town. Freda, not having seen Kibel’s work in years, on seeing his art expressed, ‘I was astonished at how different it was from that which I had grown accustomed in the past. He was now doing much work from life, portraits of friends, landscapes, nude studies, still lifes, and using a wide variety of media, pastel, oil, watercolour, tempera, black and white chalk drawing, pen drawing, etching, and different conceptions he wished to externalise … his own personal vision had asserted itself.’¹

^1. Freda Kibel and Neville Dubow (1968) Wolf Kibel: A Brief Sketch of His Life and Work, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, page 21.