Wolf Kibel, Portrait of the Artist's Son
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Exhibited : South African National Gallery, Cape Town, and Pretoria Art Museum, Wolf Kibel Retrospective, 1976, catalogue number 32
Literature : Freda Kibel. (1961) Our Art 2: Wolf Kibel, Pretoria: Foundation for Education, Science and Technology. Page 68 and illustrated on page 69, number III.This work blends interest in the personality of the sitter with a rich play of colour and texture. Paint is used vigorously to create restless texture throughout the painting except in the face, which is smooth. This surrounding texture, which reaches its peak in the shirt, serves to create a restless mood echoing the inner tension of the sitter, so well disguised by the apparent, almost haughty calmness of his facial expression, a calmness further heightened by the comparative smoothness with which the face itself is painted.A.C. Bouman. (1955) Painters of South Africa, Cape Town: HAUM h/a J. H. De Bussy. Page 133, illustrated. The ‘Portrait of His Son’ is as much a revelling in paint and colour as it is the loving representation of an intelligent and nervous child.F.L. Alexander. (1962) Art in South Africa: Painting Sculpture and Graphic Work since 1900. Cape Town: AA Balkema. Page 48 and illustrated in colour on page 49.
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