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  • NEW AVAILABLE WORK | Maggie Laubser, Portrait of a Woman with Head Scarf, Landscape in Background (Marais 641), ca.1927-32
  • NEW AVAILABLE WORK | Maggie Laubser, Figures in a Landscape: Woman Carrying Wood and a Baby; Pigs, House and Moon (Marais 628), ca.1927-32
  • NEW AVAILABLE WORK | Maggie Laubser, Pensive young woman, ca.1932-50
  • AVAILABLE WORK | J.H. Pierneef, Farmhouse, Rustenburg, 1945
    Image of JH Pierneef, painting, landscape with trees
  • NEW AVAILABLE WORK | Irma Stern, Figure in blanket, hills and huts beyond, 1929
    Image of Irma Stern, portrait, charcoal on paper
  • AVAILABLE WORK | Vladimir Tretchikoff, Herb Seller, 1950
    Image of Vladimir Tretchikoff, Herb Seller 1950
  • AVAILABLE WORK | Gerard Sekoto, Commuters, c.1946-47
    Image of Gerard Sekoto, oil painting, 1946
  • AVAILABLE WORK | J.H. Pierneef, Die Wynkelder, c.1928
  • Peffers Fine Art presents Modern and Contemporary art from Africa, the African diaspora, and the Global South through exhibitions, research,...
    Peffers Fine Art presents Modern and Contemporary art from Africa, the African diaspora, and the Global South through exhibitions, research, and cultural projects. Our focus is on producing critically engaged, museum-quality presentations and collaborating with major artists, archives, and estates.
  • NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION Dignity in Form: Maggie Laubser's Expressionist Vision Selected portraits and landscapes, 1927-1973 This selection of works by...

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    Dignity in Form: Maggie Laubser's Expressionist Vision

    Selected portraits and landscapes, 1927-1973

     

    This selection of works by Maggie Laubser (1886-1973) traces the breadth of her contribution to South African modernism, from the consolidation of her Expressionist idiom in the late 1920s to the lyrical distillations of her late career.

     

    Bringing together portraits, landscapes, and drawings, the group demonstrates her persistent engagement with everyday subjects and the rhythms of rural life, while also revealing her synthesis of European Expressionist influences with the light, forms, and social realities of the Cape. Seen together, these works underscore Laubser's pivotal role in shaping a distinctly South African strand of modernism, one attentive to both formal innovation and human dignity.

     

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  • FEATURED ARTWORK Vladimir Tretchikoff Herb Seller, 1950 A Portrait of Quiet Resistance Painted four years after Vladimir Tretchikoff's arrival in...

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    Vladimir Tretchikoff

    Herb Seller, 1950

     

     

    A Portrait of Quiet Resistance

    Painted four years after Vladimir Tretchikoff's arrival in Cape Town, Herb Seller (1950) is one of the artist's most poignant and culturally layered portraits. Far removed from the mass-market success of Chinese Girl, this early work honours a real figure: Mrs Wilhelmina Kleinsmidt, a Cape herbalist who sold traditional remedies on the Grand Parade.

    Rendered in dramatic light and rich colour, with early hints of the turquoise tonality that would become his signature, this portrait offers more than aesthetic appeal. It is a deeply humanistic document of its time, produced in the year the apartheid government passed the Group Areas Act, a law that redefined land, belonging, and identity in South Africa.

     

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  • FEATURED ONLINE EXHIBITION Constructing Belonging: A selection of works by J.H. Pierneef, 1901-1948 Considering Identity and Landscape as jointly constructed...

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    Constructing Belonging: A selection of works by J.H. Pierneef, 1901-1948

    Considering Identity and Landscape as jointly constructed through formal and ideological means

     

    This exhibition brings together a focused selection of works by J.H. Pierneef (1886-1957), one of South Africa's most influential and contested modernists. Spanning five decades of artistic production, the collection explores how Pierneef constructed a vision of South Africa's landscape shaped by aesthetic order, ideological nostalgia, and formal innovation.

     

    In the context of contemporary debates around land, heritage, and historical memory, Pierneef's images continue to demand engagement – not as fixed icons of Afrikaner nationalism, but as complex artefacts of modernism, shaped by and shaping the ideologies of their time.

     

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