A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

19 Louis Maqhubela  Composition with a Bicycle  1970 oil on paper 50,5 by 62,5 cm private collection ‘To former Polly Street attendees like Ngatane, Kumalo, Legae, Arnold and I, Jubilee Centre was our second home: classical music, jazz next door at Dorkay House and space to do some of our work away from the township. We were regularly there outside the Wednesday art class hours, not as art teenagers, but as friends and colleagues.’ The artist, quoted in Martin, Marilyn. A Vigil of Departure – Louis Khehla Maqhubela: A Retrospective 1960–2010. Johannesburg: Standard Bank Gallery, p. 9.