Images from the opening reception of François Krige Centenary that was held on Saturday 9 November at David Krut Projects, Cape Town. The exhibition runs until…
Artist: Francois Krige
Boland Dorp
The final image in this collection represents a Krige ideal. The platteland dorps of his childhood and youth constituted a paradisiacal realm, one that he…
Krisjan, 1982
The nomadic Krisjan Swart, a character from the Montagu district, features in many sketches, water-colours and oils, particularly in the late seventies and early eighties.…
Montagu Girl, 1975
Many humble folk of the Montagu district sat for Krige: domestic workers and gardeners, the librarian’s beautiful daughter, the butcher boy and Koos Kok, curator…
Namibian Landscape, 1978
Krige undertook long sketching expeditions around southern Africa. To this end, Sylvia bought a VW Combi and had it fitted out with a bed, stove…
Cogmanskloof and Fort
Soon after marrying Sylvia Shear in 1966, the couple bought a 19th-century house in Montagu. Krige hadn’t done much etching since his training in Antwerp.…
Rakops, Botswana
It is likely that during as many as three of Krige’s expeditions to Botswana (1960, 1962 and 1972) he stayed with the Barakwena people. This…
Constantia Valley
After the war, Krige again stayed with his parents intermittently. They had moved from the Free State to the Cape and were now renting a…
Basotho Men
In 1937 Krige’s family moved to Bethlehem in the Free State, where they remained for the rest of the decade. Although now based in Johannesburg,…
Market, Spain, 1935
Spain captivated Krige. When the artist joined his brother Uys there in 1934, the poet plunged him into the Iberian way of life, infecting him…
The Shrunken Forest
Trees call to mind big leafy structures over our heads, like the Oak trees that surround the Montebello Design Centre, where the exhibition is held. …
Francois Krige featuring in ‘The Benediction of Shade’
2013 marks the centenary of Francois Krige’s birth and it is therefore appropriate that The Benediction of Shade exhibition includes a delightful selection of tree…