Douglas Portway; South African 1922-1993; Untitled I ,1989
Provenance : Property of a Gentleman.
Exhibited : South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Is There Still Life, 2007.
Literature : Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 35.
Notes : "Portway's early paintings, strongly informed by the work of the American Abstract Expressionist painters, have a diaphanous, transparent quality populated by ambiguous half-forms often realized in a frenetic, scratchy line. Untitled I exemplifies his later style, where tentative, diffuse forms cohere into a still-life arrangement embedded in a world of distilled light and tranquil order that reflects his interest in the Buddhist ideal of balance and harmony between all things."1 1. Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.
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