Review 2011

Maurice van Essche A Reclining Nude signed oil on panel 47 by 69,5cm Sold R612 700, November 2011 A Seated Woman signed and dated 64; inscribed with the title on a label on the reverse oil on canvas 90 by 60cm Sold R467 880, May 2011 In the opinion of Agnes Humbert, Assistant Director, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris: South Africa is to be congratulated for having adopted an artist of the calibre of Maurice van Essche. His robust and sane talent continues its development in harmony with that of his fellow-artists of Paris and Brussels, in spite of six thousand miles which separate them. He wrestles with the same problems and arrives at the same solutions with his rare and independent esprit. Van Essche absorbs the very essence of the subjects which inspire him, submitting them to his austere, selective and emphatic vision. Carl Büchner, Van Essche , Tafelberg, Cape Town, 1967, unpaginated. 32