Sand Dunes, False Bay
Provenance : Mr William Spilhaus.
Mr Basil Trakman.
Private Collection.
Exhibited : South African National Gallery, Strat Caldecott Retrospective, 7 May to 15 June 1986, catalogue number 38.
The Durban Art Museum, Strat Caldecott, 21 August 1986, catalogue number 8.
William Humphreys Art Gallery, Caldecott Exhibition, March 1987.
Literature : J du P Scholtz, Strat Caldecott, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1970, page 73.
Notes : In the opinion of brilliant art historian, Evelyn Cohen, ‘Strat Caldecott was possibly the only South African artist who absorbed both the vision and style of French art at source in Paris and brought it to bear, unmodified, undimmed on his rendering of the local landscape’.1