Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

183 448 Kenneth Bakker SOUTH AFRICAN 1926-1988 Tidal Pool signed and dated 79 mixed media relief construction 122,5 by 131,5cm R  –   The technical aspect could also be viewed as symptomatic of the late 20th century desire to dissolve the traditional boundaries between painting and sculpture. In 1963 Bakker created a South African precedent by becoming the first local painter to receive an award at the São Paulo Biennale. He had his first solo exhibition in Johannesburg in 1968 and his last in 1969 in Cape Town. Both Bakker and his wife, Bernadine Biden, were ailing when they took their own lives in the Good Hope Nature Reserve in August 1988. – Amanda Botha Esmé Berman (1974). The Story of South African Painting . Cape Town: AA Balkema. Pages 194-197. Amanda Botha, SA Panorama , Pretoria; ‘The Art of Kenneth Bakker’. January 1969. Pages 40-41. Amanda Botha: Lantern , Pretoria: ‘Die taal van Kenneth Bakker’. June 1970. (Vol. XIX, no. 4). Pages 14-19. PROVENANCE Purchased directly from the artist by the current owner.