Medium and Techniques: ink
At least for now
Second Opinion
I lift my eyes to the mountains
Good News
Magnetic Zeros
Boland Dorp by François Krige
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…
Rakops, Botswana by François Krige
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…
Paternoster by François Krige
Krige travelled the length of the Western Cape coastline and was especially drawn to traditional fishing villages. We see sailing craft, genre scenes of men…
Constantia Valley by François Krige
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 by François Krige
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 by François Krige
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…