A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

3 Strauss & Co is proud to present the third in a series of museum-quality exhibitions (2017: JH Pierneef; 2018: Irma Stern) at the RMB Turbine Art Fair (TAF), focusing this year on two prominent South African artists whose work has a great synergy. Louis Khehla Maqhubela and Douglas Portway met for the first time in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1967, after Maqhubela won the prestigious Artist of Fame and Promise award at the Adler Fielding Gallery in Johannesburg, which included the prize of a trip to Europe. It was a meeting of great minds: they were artistic kindred spirits in the true sense of the term. Both were already highly successful artists in their own rights, albeit having had very different entry points to their careers. The meeting impacted both artists’ thinking and the manner in which they painted subsequently. The aim of this exhibition is to examine the intersection of the work of these two artists, looking at their art training and early influences, and how their styles developed after they met. Frank Kilbourn executive chairman Strauss & Co Foreword Louis Maqhubela  (© standard bank gallery, johannesburg )