Confession ,1989
Provenance : The Professor Leon Strydom Collection.
Literature : Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, a similar example, Lovers in a Cinema, South African National Gallery, illustrated on page 13.
Notes : These paintings of lovers in different positions of embrace powerfully depict the anguish of desire, a struggle of wills in which the woman shifts and twists towards and away from the man, desiring consummation yet fearful of the intrusion.1
1. Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, page 13.
