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42 WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 29 Bronwen Findlay (b.1953) Agapanthus III Oil on canvas 110 x 44,5 cm 2012 Donated by the artist R30 000 – 50 000 Agapanthus III is a work from the series of paintings from the exhibition Flowers on the Move shown at Everard Read Gallery in December 2012. It is a dazzling cluster of blue flowers bursting from an earthy ground-- a lively capturing of the beauty and extravagance of the flower commonly known as the ‘Lily of the Nile.’ Agapanthus III encompasses the vivid intensity and energetic movement characteristic of flowers - a subject Findlay has been painting for most of her career. Wits Professor of African Literature, Isabel Hofmeyr writes that Findlay’s flower paintings are ‘as much about paint as about the subject matter being depicted…. Indeed, at times, the paint and the flowers appear to be battling each other.’Findlay has taught Fine Arts extensively at various universities and exhibited widely.  PPS