Strauss & co - 2017 Boerneef

38 EUGENE LABUSCHAGNE 1921-1991 Les Acrobates signed oil on board 98,5 x 78,5 cm EXHIBITED Salon de Mai, Paris, 8-31 May 1951, Participations , page 4, catalogue number 283. Kilbourn Collection In an interview with Walter Battiss for an article in Lantern in 1952 Eugene Labuschagne stated his vision: “Juan Gris once said that painting was architecture on a flat surface. In his last paintings he succeeded in bringing perspective back to the surface of the canvas but his work remained unfinished. For us, the younger generation, he left an inexhaustible wealth of possibilities to continue the process of pictorial simplification to a point where our two dimensional architecture can attain the highest aesthetic freedom and symbolic richness beyond the limitations imposed by the object and the surface. 1 1 http / /www.johansborman.co.za/exhibition-work/ aspects-of-abstraction-gallery-i/6_eugene_labuschagne_ abstract_1957_oil_on_canvas_78_x625_cm.jpg/