20th Apr, 2024 18:00
TAKING FLIGHT: Selected Works from the Phoenix Collection
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Eleanor Esmonde-White (South Africa 1914-2007)
Nudes
oil on canvas
Signature details: signed top right
Literature: Raymond, L. (2015). 'Eleanor Esmonde-White'. Cape Town: Main Street Publishing, illustrated in colour on p.122.
Eleanor Esmonde-White: Celebrating the Power of Femininity
Eleanor Esmonde-White captivates viewers with her evocative and deeply humanistic artworks. Her pieces, predominantly portraying women engaged in everyday activities, emanate sensitivity and benevolence. Art critic, Neville Dubow aptly observes, “What is so special about Eleanor Esmonde-White’s work is that there is an additional quality of warmth, of fullness, of a monumentality which comes as much with a broad regard for people as it does with her training as a muralist. Liberty, freedom, compassion, call it what you will, it is there for those who want to see it, as the mark of a most talented and genuine artist who thinks as deeply as she feels and who has the power to communicate all of it”.1
1 Neville Dubow, Cape Argus, 29 January 1963, in Raymond, L. (2015). Eleanor Esmonde-White. Cape Town: Main Street Publishing, p.29
oil on canvas
Signature details: signed top right
Literature: Raymond, L. (2015). 'Eleanor Esmonde-White'. Cape Town: Main Street Publishing, illustrated in colour on p.122.
(1)
60 x 90.5 cm; framed size: 83.5 x 115 x 4 cm
Provenance:
Aspire Art, Cape Town, Historic, Modern & Contemporary, 27 March 2017, lot 133.
Die Kunskamer, Cape Town.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town; Durban Art Gallery; William Humphreys Gallery, Kimberley; Hester Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet; Javett Art Centre, Pretoria; Johannesburg Art Gallery and the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
Eleanor Esmonde-White: Celebrating the Power of Femininity
Eleanor Esmonde-White captivates viewers with her evocative and deeply humanistic artworks. Her pieces, predominantly portraying women engaged in everyday activities, emanate sensitivity and benevolence. Art critic, Neville Dubow aptly observes, “What is so special about Eleanor Esmonde-White’s work is that there is an additional quality of warmth, of fullness, of a monumentality which comes as much with a broad regard for people as it does with her training as a muralist. Liberty, freedom, compassion, call it what you will, it is there for those who want to see it, as the mark of a most talented and genuine artist who thinks as deeply as she feels and who has the power to communicate all of it”.1
1 Neville Dubow, Cape Argus, 29 January 1963, in Raymond, L. (2015). Eleanor Esmonde-White. Cape Town: Main Street Publishing, p.29
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Auction: TAKING FLIGHT: Selected Works from the Phoenix Collection, 20th Apr, 2024
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