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104 277 Herman van Nazareth SOUTH AFRICAN 1936– Abstract Portrait I signed mixed media and oil on board 60 by 69 cm R60 000 – 80 000 278 Herman van Nazareth SOUTH AFRICAN 1936– Abstract Portrait II signed on the reverse oil on board 60 by 68 cm R50 000 – 70 000 279 Douglas Portway SOUTH AFRICAN 1922–1993 No 19 (Abstract Composition) inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and ‘Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Paris 1965’on a label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 129,5 by 180 cm R100 000 – 150 000 ‘Van Nazareth’s representation of the human figure – and in particular the human face – makes us conscious again that we are confronted with multiple perspectives. This multiplicity may be the result of various insights into the human condition, although it might well be coloured with the emotional tone of a specific condition in the artist’s life: his personal or compassionate involvement with the events around him’. 1 Says Van Nazareth: ‘Art is nothing but learning to see’. 2 1. Etienne Vermeersch (2011) Herman van Nazareth: Schilder/Painter , Oostkamp: Stichting Kunstboek, page 7. 2. Ibid, back page. 277 278 279