Strauss & co - 11 November 2013, Johannesburg

202 257 Eugene LABUSCHAGNE south african 1921–1990 Les Acrobates signed oil on board 98,5 by 78,5 cm R70 000–100 000 exhibited Salon de Mai, Paris, 8–31 May, Participations , page 4, catalogue number 283 notes In an interview with Walter Battiss for an article in Lantern in 1952, Eugene Labuschagne stated his vision: ‘Juan Gris once said that painting was architecture on a flat surface. In his last paintings he succeeded in bringing perspective back to the surface of the canvas but his work remained unfinished. For us, the younger generation, he left an inexhaustible wealth of possibilities to continue the process of pictorial simplification to a point where our two-dimensional architecture can attain the highest aesthetic freedom and symbolic richness beyond the limitations imposed by the object and the surface.’ 1 Les Acrobates was included in the 7th Salon de Mai exhibition in Paris, 1951, catalogue number 283. A copy of the catalogue is included with this lot. 1. http://www.johansborman.co.za/exhibition - work/aspects-of-abstraction-gallery-i/6_ eugene_labuschagne_abstract_1957_oil_on_ canvas_78_x62