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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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. …
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…