J.H. Pierneef. South African artist

Framed size: (626x626x30)mm The camel thorn tree is a conspicuous shade tree of great importance wherever it grows . It is sometimes called the umbrella thorn tree.

Pierneef

By GABRIEL CROUSE There is a taste war being waged in South Africa. On one side, a distaste for shame dominates. Let me put it this way: if your grandfather was sympathetic to evil social experiments, please don’t take...

Framed size: (640x790x40)mm Painted in the 'Pierneef Style' Pierneef is one of the artists who has inspired me most. This was yet another commissioned work for a personal client in South Africa.

Framed size: (670x569x35)mm The majestic baobab dominates the landscape. The surrounding vegetation is dwarfed by this giant. With branches reaching out and towards the sky, with millennia captured inside it's awesome circumference, one can only guess what the dimensions of its root system must be. Alice Hendriks Boshoff This is not a real scene, but a created landscape. My main aim was to recreate the sense of awe and humility that I experienced as a young man and our family visited the…

BAOBAB, BUSHVELD, MESSINA was sold by Stephan Welz & Co. & Sotheby's, Cape Town, on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, «0906», Decorative & Fine Arts

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