Notes

The White Pub, painted in 1965, was purchased for the record gallery price of R6 000 by Advocate Broeksma and made headline news in the Rapport in 1971. This large-scale painting, with its sweeping view down Tennant Street, District Six to Table Bay, gives us a glimpse of the community who lived there before demolition commenced in 1968. This skillful composition invites the viewer to roam down the street and mingle with the figures and carts, flanked by the Victorian facades of Tennant Street.

Provenance

Mr Abe Krooks.

Adv AH Broeksma, thence by descent

Exhibited

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Gregoire Boonzaier Retrospective, 13 September to 8 October 1967, catalogue number 31.

Homes Trust Art Hall, Cape Town, Solo Exhibition, 1971.

Literature

Martin Bekker (1990) Gregoire Boonzaier, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, illustrated in colour on page 38.