A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

28 Louis Maqhubela  Composition with a Figure  1972 mixed media on paper 54,5 by 57,5 cm private collection ‘The law of the triangle is a beautiful, simple, universal law, underlying all physical and ‘spiritual’ manifestations. The first point of the triangle interacting with the second point, resulting in the third point; the manifestation. The circle – beloved from pole to pole – infinity expressed in a simple line! The Order, like the ancients, has a lot to teach about the circle … and the dot!’ The artist, quoted in Martin, Marilyn. A Vigil of Departure – Louis Khehla Maqhubela: A Retrospective 1960–2010. Johannesburg: Standard Bank Gallery, p. 21.