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164 229 Fred Schimmel SOUTH AFRICAN 1928–2009 Small Figure II signed and dated ‘76 oil on board 61 by 48 cm R25 000 – 40 000 LITERATURE Marlize van Zyl (ed.) (2008). Fred Schimmel Retrospective: Artist Monograph , Stellenbosch: SMAC Art Publishing. Illustrated in colour on page 37. This work is singled out in Fred Schimmel Retrospective: Artist Monograph : ‘From this same period date a handful of paintings that contrast radically to (others). Instead of pale colours and layers of smooth acrylic, these works have been built up in thick, luminous impasto brushstrokes. Small Figure I and II (both 1976) represent odd little persons made up of circles for bodies and heads, their unsophisticated playfulness reminds one of Karel Appel’s fantasy child- and animal figures. Their features have been shaped in thick lashings of bright, contrasting colours, squirted from the tubes straight onto the board and plastered down with a palette knife and brush. The surfaces of these paintings invite touch as some shapes, such as the buttons on the belly of Small Figure II , are not painted but sculpted into three-dimensional green bumps with the sharp handle of the brush’[van Zyl (ed.), 2008, page 37]. 230 Nel Erasmus SOUTH AFRICAN 1928– Liggaam XI signed and dated 1980; inscribed with the date and the title on the reverse oil on board 74 by 98,5 cm R12 000 – 16 000 LITERATURE Marelize van Zyl (ed.) (2011). Nel Erasmus , Stellenbosch: SMAC Art Publishing. A similar example is illustrated in colour on page 106. 229 230