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Still Life with Flowers in a Vase surrounded by Small Pumpkins

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Oil on Board
60.7 x 56cm
Signed: “M. Laubser” (Lower/Left)
Circa: 1932 – 1950

SKU: H1514 Categories: Impressionist Modern, Maria Magdalena (Maggie) Laubser Tag: Impressionist Modern
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Provenance:       Prof and Mrs Meyer de Villiers, Stellenbosch

 

Exhibitions:        Graham’s Fine Art Gallery, The Modern Palimpsest: Envisioning South African Modernity, Johannesburg, 29 May – 29 August 2008

 

Literature:           Botha, E.J. 1964. Die Lewe en Skilderwerk van Maggie Laubser. Unpublished MA Dissertation, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, catalogue 204, p. 94, 95, 128

Delmont, E. (Aug/Sept 1975). Maggie Laubser – The RAU Catalogue Raisonné. Art Look,p 53

Miles, E. (Sept 1965). ‘Die skilderwerk van Maggie Laubser’. Historia. P 197

 

Notes:                  RAU neg 2451

S 13186

 

Illustrated:           Marais, D. 1994. Maggie Laubser, Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics. Perskor Press, Johannesburg & Cape Town. Page 294,Cat. No. 1196.

 

According to Elza Botha, who wrote a Masters Dissertation on the work of Maggie Laubser (1963), the sunlight is caught within the objects, the flowers, and the pumpkins in this painting. The vase itself is simplified and without decoration. Botha (1963) curiously describes the pumpkins as aardblomme (flowers of the earth); and points out that the tone of this still life is rather light. Dalene Marais lists this painting in her catalogue raisonné as number 1196, and also mentions that Laubser was more interested in the seeds of the sunflower, because of its regenerative nature, than in a depiction of a conventional still life per se. Marais catalogues five still lives with sunflowers, including a very early work dating from the period that Marais (1994) describes as “Juvenilia (1902 – 1913)”.

The comparison between Laubser’s Sunflowers and the famous paintings by Vincent van Gogh, which she encountered in her youth while studying and working in Belgium and Holland, seems rather facile. It is more useful to compare Laubser’s sunflower pieces with those of another German Expressionist, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907) whose still lives are much more akin to those of Laubser’s.

by Wilhelm van Rensburg

 

Bibliography:         Botha, E.J. 1964. Die Lewe en Skilderwerk van Maggie Laubser. Unpublished MA Dissertation, Pretoria: University of Pretoria
                                Marais, D. 1994. Maggie Laubser, Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics. Perskor Press, Johannesburg & Cape Town

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