Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

108 84 Diane Victor SOUTH AFRICAN 1964– Landscape with Figural Procession signed pastel and needlepoint on paper 62 by 144 cm R40 000 – 60 000 PROVENANCE Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg, 25 October 2014, lot 43. ITEM NOTES Running above the desolate land- scape one can view the procession of figures made with small pin holes. Diane Victor is an artist of uncom- promising directness. Her pastel, charcoal and linocut works typical- ly confront viewers with a highly charged, often fraught psychological landscape. ‘I cannot just leave issues that anger or upset me alone,’ she once observed in an interview. ‘They are still part of my range of choices and an element of my social con- science – that want almost to rattle people or make them take one step beyond their comfort zone.’ 1 1. Sean O’Toole. (2003) [Online] Available: http://www.artthrob.co.za/03feb/artbio.html [7 December 2018].